Before revision: But what makes it or its negation true is the present existence of a state of affairs – a truthmaker.Buckner and Zupko, Duns Scotus on Time and Existence: The Questions on Aristotle's 'De interpretatione' , translated with Introduction and Commentary by Edward Buckner and Jack Zupko, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014, p. 318 If so, then the future is determined in the sense that the way things are now – namely the state of affairs that makes ‘There will be a sea-battle tomorrow’ or its negation true – determines the way that things will be.
After revision: ()But what makes it or its negation true is the present existence of a state of affairs – a truthmaker.Buckner and Zupko, Duns Scotus on Time and Existence: The Questions on Aristotle's 'De interpretatione' , translated with Introduction and Commentary by Edward Buckner and Jack Zupko, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014, p. 318 If so, then the future is determined in the sense that the way things are now – namely the state of affairs that makes ‘There will be a sea-battle tomorrow’ or its negation true – determines the way that things will be.