ABSTRACT
Antecedently to the running of most horse-races, some people guess that one horse will win, some that another will. The words ‘true’ and ‘false’ and the words ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ are adjectives, and the grammatical fact tempts us to suppose that trueness and falseness, correctness and incorrectness, and even, perhaps, fulfilledness and unfulfilledness must be qualities or properties resident in the propositions which they characterize. The exciting but false proposition that the slogan seems to force upon us is that whatever happens is inevitable or doomed, and, what makes it sound even worse, logically inevitable or logically doomed—somewhat as it is logically inevitable that the immediate successor of any even number is an odd number. Certainly there are infinitely many cases of one truth making necessary the truth of another proposition.
