Perhaps Lee felt she'd done as much as she could to reconcile her present beliefs with her society's past.
How absolutely perfect, the novelist thought – nothing could better represent the emptiness of our present beliefs, the beliefs we had killed the Aboriginal stories for.
In this case it is also normative that present beliefs be conglomerable, which is a result that touches on a long-term controversy at the foundations of probability.
In causal layered analysis, long-term futures are used as a methodological tool for examining present beliefs rather attempting to forecast possible futures.
In the remaining case, where one commits to some future behaviour after establishing present beliefs, we characterise the several possibilities to define consistent future assessments; this shows in particular that temporal consistency does not preclude changes of mind.
On one side are those who maintain that it is consistent with my being able to do otherwise that the past (including my character and present beliefs and desires) and the basic laws of nature logically entail that I do what I actually do.
