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Most Australians … volunteer
(continued from: Most Australians … gamble) Indeed they do. And we have much reason to be grateful. I have visited the memorial at Hamel, where Australian troops turned back the German offensive of Spring and Summer 1918. At great cost. … Continue reading
Most Australians … gamble
(continued from: Most Australians) Indeed they do. Gambling losses in Australia are now running at some $20 billion per annum. Combine that thought with a reflection upon the average Australian’s devotion to high culture, and you begin to see why sentences … Continue reading
Most Australians
In Seminar 2 we opined that there is a difference, which we think our theory explains, between the natural interpretation of Most Australians won’t know the ODI result and the natural interpretation of Most Australians wouldn’t know the ODI result. … Continue reading
The Religious Maniac and Future Fact
Agent Comboni has another potential hand-grenade for the No-Future-Fact doctrine. Imagine, she says, a religious maniac, who has persuaded himself of both of the following: He has had a revelation that God intends to end the world on Burns Night … Continue reading
Arithmetic and Future Fact
We are committed to the thesis that English has no way of encoding claims of future fact, because all English messages concerning future time are judgements (that is, tensed verdicts), and verdicts do not have truth-values and so cannot possibly … Continue reading
‘Will’ and Later Discovery
Agent tardigrade has proposed a most cunning idea to rescue the doctrine that English ‘will‘ encodes for future time. We are grateful to have our attention thus drawn to the matter: the idea is well worth thinking through. Here it … Continue reading