Aristotelian Determinism: A Solution

Rational Analysis

1. Truth is absolute, unchangeable, final.


2. Future truth must also be absolute, unchangeable, and final.


3. Therefore, future truth is necessary truth, not contingent.

Empirical Analysis

1. In those things which are not continuously actual, potentiality is multi-directional.


2. Therefore, events don’t occur of necessity.

Solution:

1. Truth value in future statements exists as potentiality and not as necessity, since it is quantified by the now.


2. This means that, future statements are contingent upon time.


3. Past statements, however, are necessarily true or false, since they belong to an actualized time.


4. Truth value is inseparable from phenomenon; phenomenon is inseparable from time.