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Sych's avatar

This is one of my most beloved Aristotelian passages. It is a whole implicit philosophy of language

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Justus Schulz's avatar

Again a great article.

I would just argue that the statement "the future has been predetermined" does not entail the statement "nothing happens by chance." It does indeed entail that nothing happens by chance within time; however, time, and in that matter space, may be a thing itself and not "nothing" and we can perceive of the idea that time could've come about undetermined: by spontaneus emergence or, perhaps, an act of God. Then everything within time is predetermined, without time itself being predetermined, at most limited to the set of all best possible worlds according to the ONE.

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