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#fatalism
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When a family says ‘it was always going to happen’, what are they claiming?
I work in intensive care, and I hear the same sentence most weeks: "It was always going to happen." Sometimes from a daughter, sometimes from a doctor, sometimes from me. I've started to think it means very different things in different mouths:…
Started by Elin Lindqvist5 replies259 views -
The sea battle argument is a scope mistake, and Aristotle half saw it
Every year I teach chapter 9 of De Interpretatione to seventeen-year-olds, and every year somebody leaves the room a fatalist. So here is the case I make to them, and I would like it attacked by people who know more logic than…
Started by Giulia Ferrante4 replies110 views