 Unfortunately, how Aristotle rejects the conclusion is less clear than that he rejects it, because De Interpretatione 9 is an extremely compressed text (see Gaskin 1995 and chapter 6 of Van Rijen 1989 for details). But on the most common and historically influential interpretation, Aristotle responds to the argument by rejecting its premise, that the Principle of Bivalence applies universally. Instead, it is true only for the most part and does not apply to statements about the future that can possibly be true or false, such as “there will be a sea battle tomorrow” or “this cloak will be cut up”. Let’s take the statement, “Over 100,000 people will die of Covid-19 in the United States in 2020”. Before 100,001 people die, it is not inevitable that this will occur; instead, it depends on what people do, and the statement is neither true nor false. Once 100,001 people die, then the statement changes truth value from Neutral or Indeterminate to True, as well as becoming necessary for us now, because we can no longer do anything about it.