In Todd 2021 (The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False<\/i>) I defended a kind of pragmatic “error-theory” regarding ordinary judgments about the interaction of ‘will’ and negation.\u00a0 On the view I defended, ‘will’ involves an essentially modal component, in the form of a universal quantifier over the “available” histories.\u00a0 But this view faces an objection: we do not tend to hear a distinction between ‘not: will’ and ‘will not’.\u00a0 Response: that is because we typically assume (falsely, I suggest) that there is always only ever one available history, in which case the scope of the negation makes no difference.\u00a0 In this talk, I aim to review and clarify the essential components of this pragmatic account \u2014 and I attempt to sketch an improved story about how a similar strategy might help my “all false” open future view respond to a persistent objection involving credence.\u00a0 Here I try to build on some anti-“Molinist” remarks of Anscombe and van Inwagen regarding counterfactuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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