Fatalism and the Logic of Time
Fatalism and the Logic of Time
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197786685 | 139 Pages | PDF | 0.7 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197786685 | 139 Pages | PDF | 0.7 MB
Each of these arguments depends on a premise of the necessity of the past. In Fatalism and the Logic of Time, Linda Zagzebski examines two interpretations of this necessity. One interpretation is the modal necessity of the past, and the other interpretation is the cause of closure of the past. She argues that the combination of the necessity of the past with the transfer of necessity principle is inconsistent with the truth of any proposition about the past that entails a proposition about the future. As such, the problem is much broader than fatalism. It is a problem in the logic of time. All arrows of time, as well as the arrows of physics, arise from the human experience of before and after – but that experience does not itself require an arrow.