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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Causal Influence of Probability on the Future

I'm open to those simply being a list of things that happen in the future. All I really care is about the evidential relations, and so whether or not this thing is backed by some underlying reality isn't important to me. It's all about epistemology. So if I know about the outcome of the system ahead of time, it's got to be a deterministic system because all there is to the notion of determinism is something about what you can know and what you can known it or something.

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