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<p><b>Future contingent propositions</b> (or simply, <b>future contingents</b>) are statements about states of affairs in the future that are <a href="page.php?w=contingency_%28philosophy%29">contingent</a>: neither <a href="page.php?w=necessarily_true">necessarily true</a> nor necessarily false.</p>

<p>The <b>problem of future contingents</b> seems to have been first discussed by <a href="page.php?w=Aristotle">Aristotle</a> in chapter 9 of his <a href="page.php?w=On_Interpretation">On Interpretation</a> (De Interpretatione), using the famous sea-battle</p><p>
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