Our knowledge of the past and of the future. Kneale, M. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 72:1–12, 1972.
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[first paragraph] It has been maintained that human beings necessarily and in all circumstances have more knowledge of the past than of the future. I want to ask how far this claim is justified. In what follows I shall use the word 'knowledge' in the way in which the ordinary man uses it and not according to strict Cartesian requirements which limit the application of the word to the apprehension of necessary truths and of propositions guaranteed by immediate experience. And similarly with the word 'know'. It is clear that the enquiry has two parts; the first concerned with non-inferential, the second with inferential knowledge.
@article{Kneale1972,
abstract = {[first paragraph] It has been maintained that human beings necessarily and in all circumstances have more knowledge of the past than of the future. I want to ask how far this claim is justified. In what follows I shall use the word 'knowledge' in the way in which the ordinary man uses it and not according to strict Cartesian requirements which limit the application of the word to the apprehension of necessary truths and of propositions guaranteed by immediate experience. And similarly with the word 'know'. It is clear that the enquiry has two parts; the first concerned with non-inferential, the second with inferential knowledge.},
author = {Kneale, Martha},
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journal = {Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society},
pages = {1--12},
title = {{Our knowledge of the past and of the future}},
volume = {72},
year = {1972}
}

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