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  • Fatalism, Foreknowledge and Determinism
    • [[Aristotle]]: can't change the past, therefore can't change the present. If there's nothing you can do about the past, then you have no choice about the future, etc. There is something fallacious about the inference. You need a necessity of all premises - the fact that you can't do something about the past and therefore about the future.
      • Aristotle denies that there are trues about the future. Given the freedom, it is true then, but does not follow that it is now true. Same thing with the past. Future propositions are not either true or false, but have some middle truth value.
        • Similar to Schrodinger's Cat.