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Episode 3: Logical Fatalism with Alicia Finch

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The Transfer of Necessity Principle

Alicia drives to Chicago at noon on January 1 is true at t minus a billion, and it's not up to Alicia at 1159. What was true a billion years ago, how could it be up to me on January 1 at 1159? And as long as the agents action occurs at the last time as long as we're talking about an action that occurs at the latest time, it looks like we're going to run into this problem. So if this argument works, it's going to generalize to a whole bunch of propositions describing all human action. Exactly.

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