“Naive fatalism holds that there is no point in doing anything because everything is predetermined (or is the will of God, for example), hence nothing you can do can change how things will be. It is false, because one’s doings and deliberations can change things, being themselves real parts of the (possibly deterministic) causal process.”
– Strawson (2010, p. 247, footnote 22) [Freedom and Belief, Revised Edition.]
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2023, April 9). Doings and deliberations can change things [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/doings-and-deliberations-can-change-things/
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