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Episode 2: Fatalism, Foreknowledge, and Determinism with John Martin Fischer

The Free Will Show

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Are You Defining the Fixity of the Past?

There's a kind of past statement, like the j f k example, that you can't do anything about. But there's another kind of past Statement that depends on what happens in the future. And intuitively, i can affect the present, therefore there are certain facts, the dependent ones, that i can affect in the past. Some people could say yes, then i'm denying the general fixity of the past idea. Is just that someacts are not like that.

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