Category: Fatalism
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Caesar, the Rubicon, Tenseless Truth, Determinism, and Fatalism
In a post the point of which was merely to underscore the difference between absolute and necessary truth, I wrote, somewhat incautiously: Let our example be the proposition p expressed by 'Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 44 B.C.' Given that p is true, it is true in all actual circumstances. That is, its truth-value…
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What is Fatalism? How Does it Differ from Determinism?
Robert Kane (A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, Oxford 2005, p. 19) rightly bids us not confuse determinism with fatalism: This is one of the most common confusions in free will debates. Fatalism is the view that whatever is going to happen, is going to happen, no matter what we do. Determinism alone does…