ABSTRACT
There are three components of logical fatalism (hereafter fatalism ): (i) bivalence , the thesis that every proposition is either true or false (and no proposition is both true and false); (ii) the thesis that free action is impossible; and (iii) the thesis that bivalence entails that free action is impossible. The pith of the argument is this:
Assume that it is true that agent S performs act A at time t , where time t is in the future. Since it is already true that S will perform A at t , S cannot not perform A at t . But if S cannot not perform A at t , S will perform A at t non - freely . Given that S , A , and t might be any agent, any act, and any future time, free action is impossible.
