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 | | Nor, of course would we have supposed that there was anything inevitable about the victory; these things, we naturally suppose, are a matter of chance. | | | However, as we have seen, other arguments for the impossibility of affecting the past go further, and incorporate an explanation for the impossibility. | | | Fatalism is the view that we are powerless to do anything other that what we actually do. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fatalism
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| | Fatalism - definition of Fatalism in Encyclopedia |
| | There are other examples that show clearly that human deliberation makes a big difference - a chess player who deliberates should usually be able to defeat one of equal strength who is only allowed one second per move. | | | Fatalism is, roughly, the view that the future is already set and therefore, that human deliberation and actions are pointless because things have to be the way they have to be. | | | Although determinists would accept that the future is in some sense set, they accept human actions as factors that will cause the future to take the shape that it will - even though those human actions are themselves determined; if they had been different, the future would also be different. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Fatalism
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| | Fatalism and true prophecy |
| | Fatalism - Insight into over 500 human values | | | Of course this is in conflict with the theory of free will, which allows people the freedom to choose their actions, which are not predetermined by any force other than their own will. | | | Fatalism may be consistent with a belief that events are caused by a determining principle or force in the universe, such as God who determines everything. |
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http://nostradamus.time-loops.net/Fatalism.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fatalism |
| | Fatalism is in general the view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate. | | | The clinamen, or aptitude for fortuitous deviation which Epicurus introduced into the atomic theory, though essentially a chance factor, seems to have been conceived by some as acting not unlike a form of fate. | | | Fatalism in general has been inclined to overlook immediate antecedents and to dwell rather upon remote and external causes as the agency which somehow moulds the course of events. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05791a.htm
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| | Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Arguments against astrology can be grouped into one of two categories (though there are other ways to classify them): ones that deny the efficacy of astrology or astrologers; and ones that admit that astrology 'works' but question the morality of the practice. | | | Arriving at the eighth zone, the soul is clothed in its own power (perhaps meaning its own astral body), while it is deified (in God) in the zone above the eighth (some Gnostic texts also refer to a tenth realm). | | | However, given that the example is based on a consideration of importance to Babylonian astrology, the rising of the fixed star Sirius, the possibility exists that Chrysippus or one of his contemporaries discussed astrology in the context of logic and divination. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/astr-hel.htm
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| | fatalism - Thesaurus |
| | destiny, destination; fatality, fate, dismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness adj.; spell. |
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http://www.yourthesaurus.net/fatalism.html
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