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Todd - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Todd’s view ties semantics, logic, and metaphysics closely:
      - The semantic account explains why future contingents seem determinate in logic.
      - Denying PFDF in Model 3 ensures future contingents can't be true now, preserving the open future.
        
        Todd clearly rejects Model 1 due to its determinate outcome via PFDF. His rejection of Model 2 is less sharp, since it keeps indeterminacy but still assumes an actual branch. Todd prefers Model 3 because it's more transparent, avoids extra ontology (like an actual branch), and retains the same explanatory power as Model 2.
      - Common logic misreads future statements by ignoring metaphysical indeterminacy.
      - Thus, SBT is metaphysically indeterminate but logically false.
- - - - There are no primitive future directed facts
        
        They are not detectable in any way.
        
        Are ontologically excessive
      - There might be primitive future directed facts
        
        Yes one cannot detect or display primitive future directed properties by any technology at present moment.
        
        One can detect future directed thoughts, phenomenologically. Which may indicate an effect of something that functions similar to a Primitive future directed property, especially if no present fact, natural law or change of mind interupts .
        
        If we look at action potentials they indicate functions in the human body that acts like PFDP, because they are decided before they happen. Perhaps there are more such functions in humans to longer futuristic events and that may weaver to do or not, but really it was always determined to happen.
        
        This does not prove that there are any PFDP at all it just shows that there are some things that have similar fucntionalites as these PFDPs
        
        The point is not that there really are PFDP, just that there are certain situations that resembels the functionality of PFDP. Furthermore the claims intention is not to establish PFDP to determine every single future event but at least some future events.