That doesn’t mean I am not content, or that I am not thankful for the children God has given me. I am, very much! I love the life I have, and am overjoyed at the blessing of being their mom. Necessarily, if one knows at t that Q is unsound, then one ought not wonder whether Q at t. Footnote 28

But really I wanted to shout at them, "No actually it's not fair, it's not fair that my baby was taken, it's not fair that its little heart stopped beating. Please stop minimising my loss.

Falsism seems to offer a therapy. In accepting the theory, I come to know that (NA24) is false. Falsism provides the true, complete answer to the question N. The true, complete answer is that It is false that the sodium-24 atom will decay within the next 24 h. So, according to (WIN1) it is inappropriate for me to wonder whether the sodium-24 atom will decay. Footnote 22 But I do continue to wonder, and my wondering certainly seems appropriate. This raises a problem for Falsism. Footnote 23 In this paper, I am not interested in evaluating this argument per se, but rather in looking at one of the implications of a popular response that involves rejecting Premise (1). Premise (1) follows from the Principle of Bivalence: (Bivalence): This approach rejects bivalence for future contingents and also the Law of Excluded Middle which states that for every proposition, p, either p or not- p. This approach introduces a third truth-value that I will call middle. Future contingents like (EGGS) and (NA24) are neither true nor false, but rather middle. Assigning an intermediate truth-value to such claims is intended to capture the idea that such statements are “at the present time determined neither positively or negatively” (Łukasiewicz 1930, 53). So the Middlist rejects Premise (1) of the above argument. The lesson to be learned from future contingents is that they are neither true nor false but instead possess an intermediate truth-value.

It’s always easier to miss someone in the middle of the night when you’re lonely than it is to miss someone in the middle of the day when you’re busy. And I think that says a lot.This may overstate my epistemic position with respect to (NA24). In any case, in accepting Falsism, I ought to accept that (NA24) is false. If I believe outright that (NA24) is false, it also seems that I ought not wonder whether (NA24) is true or false. This follows from the attractive idea that to believe a proposition outright is to treat it as if one knows it (Williamson, 2000, 46–47). If I were to instead assign a high credence to Falsism, say .80, this seems compatible with wondering whether (NA24) is true or false, however it leads to other difficulties. In assigning a credence of .80 to Falsism, I should assign (at least) a credence of .80 to the proposition that (NA24) is false, and, assuming, as we are, that the evil scientist’s promise is sincere, I should assign a credence of (at least) .80 to the proposition that I will go on holiday. The more confident I become of Falsism, the more confident I should be that I will go on holiday and avoid torture! I put aside the interesting question of what implications partial belief in Falsism and other theories of future contingents have for wondering about the future. Thank you to Uri Liebowitz and an anonymous referee for pressing this point. I will always wonder, who you would, have been, child baby loss, memorial quote, svg cut files, in memory children, sympathy heaven, brother family son, sister daughter, goodbyes miscarriage, religious angel, sorrow remembrance On August 24, I was 16 weeks pregnant with our daughter Maya. Our lives were changed forever that day when we had to face the most unimaginable decision . . . death or death. As the name suggests, a future contingent statement is a statement that expresses a contingent proposition about the future. Discussions of future contingents and the open future tend to focus on a certain sub-set of contingent statements about the future: those considered to be presently unsettled. Typically, these are statements that involve a purportedly free action like: (EGGS):

I have two miracle children born when I was, in medical jargon, “ advanced maternal age.” I am very likely done having kids, but my family will never feel complete this side of Heaven. I have walked the road of infertility, including pregnancy loss, for too many years to ever reach that place. After a while the cytotek took effect, the cramps were pretty intense, but in a strange way, I felt it was important I feel some pain for this tiny baby, seeing as I would never go through any sort of labour for it. The midwife came to take me to surgery.Down in theatre, I waited my turn, clutching my pillow on my lap. The doctor who was to do my ERPC introduced himself, he sat down beside me, hechatted gently to mefor a few minutes and said: "I'm sorry about this, but we'll look after you".When I woke up I heard a baby crying, it took a minute for me to realise where I was and realise they were the cries of somebody else's newborn. The midwife in recovery was kind, "I'm sure that's the last thing you want to hear," she said. Hartshorne, C. (1941). Man’s vision of god, and the logic of theism (Vol. OCLC, p. 1456831). Willett, Clark & Co. We can distinguish between true and false answers to a question. Both a and b are true answers to A, and c is a false answer to A. Furthermore, a is a true partial answer to A, whereas b is a true complete answer to A: b completely and truly answers A: it states that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin flew in the Apollo 11 mission and no one else did. True, complete answers are the logically strongest true answers entailing all partial answers.I am clearly a complete drama queen, my loss is minuscule compared to some. What has happened to me is minor and I am acting like it's a tragedy." For the life of me, I couldn’t fathom why God would make this a part of our story —we aren’t strangers to hard, but this was beyond any comprehension. A wave of grief and sadness hit me, my heart ached, it was gone, I would never meetthat little person I had been planning for these last 11 weeks. I would never hold them, smell their baby newness, I wouldnever know if they were a boy or girl, I would never get to see how their big sisters would be with their new sibling. We madeour way to the maternity hospital, we were put in a waiting room with other mothers to be waiting for scans. MacFarlane, J. (2008). Truth in the garden of forking paths. In M. Garcia-Carpintero & M. Kolbel (Eds.), Relative truth (pp. 81–102). Oxford University Press. Part of the seriousness related to a molar pregnancy is that traces can cause a cancerous threat to the body, and certain hormone levels would need to be monitored closely as well. Complete molar pregnancies run the risks (many of which I personally endured) of life-threatening hypertension, hyperthyroidism, anemia, hemorrhage, hysterectomy, risk of cancer, and maternal death.

In the days that followed, I cried a lot. But I was so conflicted about how I felt. People tried to say things they thought would help."Oh that's awful, but it's so common, at least it was early." I never thought much about the afterlife or wanting to be reunited with anyone that has passed away, until Gummy. How I would love to hold him in my arms and tell him how much mommy loves and misses him. Maybe one day I will. I learned through all of this that I was not alone. I felt like I was the only woman to ever suffer a miscarriage. I was a failure. I let my child down. I couldn’t do the one thing right that a woman’s body was designed to do. I tried to do everything right, and still it wasn’t good enough. I was ashamed. Embarrassed. Guilt-ridden. But I learned that miscarriages are more common than you think. That’s the part of me that wishes, the part that romanticizes the past, the part that will recreate scenes from a romantic movie with you, the part of me that dreams, the part that sometimes goes against all logic and believes in the impossible, the part that will always believe in mad love. Consider again the evil scientist’s promise. Things are a bit different if we accept Middlism for future contingents because the evil scientist hasn’t told me what he will do iff (NA24) is middle. Suppose he adds the following condition to his promise: he will leave me alone and do nothing iff (NA24) is middle; no torture, no holiday. Given this promise, I would wonder whether the sodium-24 atom will decay in the next 24 h; I would fear that it will and hope that it will not.I went into a deep depression. I know I was no good to anyone in those early days. Not my daughter or my husband. The next several months were filled with so many ups and downs, I couldn’t fit them into a blog. But somehow, through the grace of God, the support of my husband, and knowing I needed to be there for the child I had left, I found myself again. Schoubye, A. J., & Rabern, B. (2017). Against the Russellian open future. Mind, 126(504), 1217–1237.