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Grief Journal : I Will Always Wonder Who You Would Have Been: Pregnancy, Infant, Baby, and Child Loss ~ 6x9 College Ruled Notebook

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Given that my focus in this paper is on wondering whether with polar questions as their content, we can state an ignorance norm for wondering whether that is entailed by (IN) as follows: (WIN1): I can assume without contradiction that my presence in Warsaw at a certain moment of next year, e.g. at noon on 21 December, is at the present time determined neither positively or negatively. Hence it is possible, but not necessary, that I shall be present in Warsaw at the given time. On this assumption the proposition I shall be in Warsaw at noon on 21 December of next year can at the present time be neither true nor false. For if it were true now, my future presence in Warsaw would have to be necessary, which is contradictory to the assumption. If it were false now, on the other hand, my future presence in Warsaw would have to be impossible, which is also contradictory to the assumption. Therefore the proposition considered is at the moment neither true nor false ... (Łukasiewicz 1930, 53). My best friend always tells me when you get brought up in a conversation that she thinks it was true love. She thinks you're the only person I've ever loved in my life. And to tell you the truth, I think she is right. No one makes me feel how you made me feel, babe. No one has made me smile like you did. No one makes me giggle after crying like you did. No one can ever kiss me the way you did, and always catch me off guard. And fight me when I didn't kiss you in front of my friends, which I warmed up too after a while. You were a jerk to me at times, but I was also a witch to you. So I guess you could say it evens out, right? Elbourne, P. (2010). The existence entailments of definite descriptions. Linguistics and Philosophy, 33(1), 1–10.

Part of me will always wonder how it’s possible to fake the way you looked at me, how your eyes were the most truthful liars I’ve ever met, how you could look at someone like that and not feel anything. They say your eyes are the window to your soul and I could’ve sworn I’ve seen your soul, I’ve seen your heart, part of me will always wonder how the hell I fell in love with you that night if I hadn’t seen your heart — if I hadn’t felt it. Maybe it would’ve been easier to hate you if I hadn’t seen right through you. Field, H. (2015). Mathematical undecidables, metaphysical realism, and equivalent descriptions. In R. E. Auxier, D. R. Anderson, & L. E. Hahn (Eds.), The philosophy of Hilary Putnam (pp. 145–172). Open Court. Here Friedman is discussing suspension of judgment, but I think the very same considerations apply to wondering whether. If I am wondering whether Thomas Jefferson’s Ferrari was red and subsequently learn that my wondering contains a false presupposition, it seems inappropriate for me to continue to wonder whether Thomas Jefferson’s Ferrari was red. These considerations motivate another norm for wondering whether: that it is inappropriate to wonder whether in cases where one learns that the question that serves as the content of one’s wondering is unsound. (WIN2): 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.Will’ here means ‘will definitely’; ‘It will be that p’ is not true until it is in some sense settled that it will be the case, and ‘It will be that not p’ is not true until it is in some sense settled that not-p will be the case. If the matter is not thus settled, both these assertions, i.e. [It will be the case that p] and [It will be the case that not p] are simply false...(Prior, 1967, 129). In our example, (EGGS) is satisfied in h2 and fails to be satisfied in h1 and h3 because Nicola has eggs for breakfast in h2 and not in h1 and h3. The second step of the process involves supervaluating over histories. A statement is true at m just in case it is satisfied in every history that contains m: One might respond “But isn’t there an asymmetry between the past and the future? Isn’t the past fixed and the future open? So, shouldn’t there be an asymmetry in wondering about the future versus wondering about the past?” I agree that there are various asymmetries between the past and the future, and some underlie an asymmetry in mental attitudes, but it is not clear that there is such an asymmetry in our wondering whether attitudes. Relief, regret, anticipation, and fear are all plausibly temporally asymmetric attitudes. For example, if Susan regrets not sending Mia a card for her birthday, and then learns that Mia’s birthday is not until next month, it is inappropriate for her to continue to regret not sending Mia a card for her birthday (even if Susan knows she is bad about sending cards and knows she will not send her one next month). But wondering whether doesn’t seem to be temporally asymmetric in this way. The following three considerations support the conclusion that wondering whether attitudes about future events are much like wondering whether attitudes about past and present events. The first is that in the case of temporally asymmetric attitudes like relief and anticipation, learning how we are temporally related to the event in question has a significant impact on the attitude. This does not seem to be the case for wondering whether. We can wonder whether a particular event occurs without knowing (or caring) whether the event is in our future. Discovering that the event lies in our future does not appear to affect our wondering whether attitude in the way that it does with other temporally asymmetric attitudes like relief and anticipation. Suppose Wanda wonders whether Serena Williams wins the 2021 US Open. Due to her preoccupation with other things and the disarray of the tournament calendar due to Covid, Wanda is unaware of whether the 2021 US Open has already taken place. Finding out that the 2021 US Open hasn’t happened yet does not alter her attitude of wondering whether Serena Williams wins. It would be entirely appropriate for her to continue to wonder whether Serena Williams wins were she to discover that the 2021 US Open hasn’t happened yet. In contrast, it would have a significant impact on her attitude of anticipation of the event: learning that it hasn’t happened yet may lead her to adopt an attitude of anticipation towards the event.

Thankfully, I went on to have 2 more beautiful, healthy children. Little did I know that my miscarriage was just the beginning of a very difficult journey. I could write a book on the struggle and turmoil that would be the next part of my efforts to expand my family! But it was all so very worth it. MacFarlane, J. (2014). Assessment sensitivity: Relative truth and its applications. Oxford University Press. Enter guilt, my thoughts in response to these words: "What is wrong with me? Why am I upset when it was early and other women are obviously able to get over it without much fuss. "Belnap, N. D., & Steel, T. B. (1976). The logic of questions and answers. Yale University Press. Google-Books-ID: SCxuQgAACAAJ. I’ll always wonder what we could have been. I’ll wonder if you could have been the one to make me fall in love again. I’ll always wonder if you’d be the one to help me complete the endless list of projects and ideas I have churning in my head. I’ll always wonder if you’d be the one who could make me appreciate how sentimental and important love is.

Several people would tell me stories of their own losses. People that I had never really had an in-depth conversation with before shared their personal heartaches. One woman told me she had lost two children over twenty years ago and she still thinks of them. “You never forget,” she said. I now know how true that statement is. These people helped me to heal. I’m so thankful they took the time to share their stories with me. I didn’t feel alone anymore. I wasn’t a freak of nature. Bad things really do happen to good people. This happens. Women just don’t talk about it very often. But it happens. In sum, if future contingents presuppose the existence of a unique actual future and no unique actual future exists, then it would be inappropriate to continue to wonder about them if we learn that there is no unique actual future. Following Todd’s extension of the Russellian analysis of non-denoting definite descriptions, it would be inappropriate to continue to wonder about them because learning that there is no unique actual future involves learning their true, complete answer. If we instead adopt a Strawsonian analysis, it turns out that the questions that serve as the contents of our wonderings about future contingents are unsound, and in coming to know this, we ought not wonder about them. So if future contingents presuppose a unique actual future and no such future exists, once we accept this, it is no longer appropriate to wonder about them.

But those thoughts made me realize I never think of you when I’m busy or laughing. I never hear a joke and think how much I’d love to share it with you. I never go out with my friends and wish you were there for me to dance with. I never want to text you when something good happens. Belnap, N., & Green, M. (1994). Indeterminism and the thin red line. Philosophical Perspectives, 8, 365–388.

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