Sentence examples for logical fatalism from inspiring English sources
The worry that the same thing cannot be "not yet", "now" and "no longer" underpins anxieties about tensed time from Aristotle's logical fatalism to JME McTaggart's 1908 paper "The Unreality of Time".
Unlike the argument for theological fatalism, the argument for logical fatalism has few defenders.
They took themselves to be extending a solution Aristotle discusses in De Interpretatione to the problem of logical fatalism.
(For some comparisons between arguments for incompatibilism and arguments for logical fatalism, see van Inwagen 1983, Mackie 2003, Perry 2004, and Vihvelin 2008).
It is also, as we have seen in connexion with logical fatalism, easy enough to delineate a species of soft facts about the past which do meet the second condition.
When argued for in the first way, it is commonly called "Logical fatalism" (or, in some cases, "Metaphysical fatalism"); when argued for in the second way, it is commonly called "Theological fatalism".
More recently D.K. Johnson (2009) has taken up this solution to both logical and theological fatalism, arguing that we ought to accept presentism, the position that only the present exists.
(For more on logical determinism, see the entry on fatalism, Taylor 1967, Lewis 1976, Sobel 1998, and Westphal 2006, Bernstein 2010, Merricks 2009, and Fischer and Todd 2011. For more on theological determinism, see the entries on fatalism and divine foreknowledge).
But if fatalism is true, he demonstrated, we are going to learn that fact only through an argument that draws on something richer and more substantive than the arid, purely logical moves Taylor made.
