The Logic of Fatalism

The argument from fatalism is that you are not free to do anything different. It was first put forward in aristotle's work, de interpretation of a famous sea battle argument. If it's now true that there will be a sea battle to morrow, there's nothing i can do about it. And if it's now false, that ther i mean now false, then there's nothing I can do about that. So given that i can't change the past, there's no choice about listening at all.

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