RE: Free Will
August 21, 2016 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2016 at 2:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 21, 2016 at 1:59 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Determinism = Everything is predetermined.
That is -not- determinism. In fact, it's fatalism.
Quote:Fatalism = You can't change the future.That -is- fatalism
If you had referred to a dictionary, you wouldn't be babbling on about this....so try another route. The distinction isn;t even subtle. For things to be deterministic conditions must be met. For things to be fatalistic, fate must simply apply. Things are not "pre-determined" in determinism unless conditions are met - and those conditions can't -be- met until the very -moment- of the event. In fatalism there are no conditions to be met, no moments of reference, only fate.
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