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Fatalism and foreknowledge

Fatalism and foreknowledge

1.[3p]

What is the scope error in the sea battle argument?

Correct
The answer is: It moves from $\Box(p \rightarrow q)$ to $p \rightarrow \Box q$
The answer is: It moves from $\Box(p \rightarrow q)$ to $p \rightarrow \Box q$
The answer is: It moves from $\Box(p \rightarrow q)$ to $p \rightarrow \Box q$

2.[2p]

Which work raises the sea battle problem?

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The answer is: Aristotle's De Interpretatione, chapter nine
The answer is: Aristotle's De Interpretatione, chapter nine
The answer is: Aristotle's De Interpretatione, chapter nine

3.[2p]

The sea battle argument needs determinism as a premise.

The answer is: False
Correct

4.[3p]

What is Chrysippus's reply to the Idle Argument?

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The answer is: The outcome and the action are co-fated, so the recovery comes about through calling the doctor
The answer is: The outcome and the action are co-fated, so the recovery comes about through calling the doctor
The answer is: The outcome and the action are co-fated, so the recovery comes about through calling the doctor

5.[3p]

Put the three ingredients of the foreknowledge argument in the order the lesson gives them.

  1. Transfer: what is entailed by something not up to us is not up to us

  2. Connection: the past item entails what you do now

  3. Fixity: nothing anyone does now changes what was the case long ago

Show the answer

a, b, c

6.[3p]

Match each reply to the foreknowledge argument with what it denies.

  • Boethius and Aquinas on eternity

  • Ockhamism

  • Open theism

  • Denying bivalence

  • that statements about the future are already true

  • that the belief lies in the past at all

  • that future free actions are foreknown

  • that a belief about your future is a hard fact about the past

Show the answer

Boethius and Aquinas on eternity: that the belief lies in the past at all Ockhamism: that a belief about your future is a hard fact about the past Open theism: that future free actions are foreknown Denying bivalence: that statements about the future are already true

7.[2p]

In which year did Nelson Pike publish the modern statement of the foreknowledge argument?

CorrectNot quite: 1965

8.[3p]

Which pair of facts is the soft one about the past?

Correct
The answer is: Caesar crossed the Rubicon 2074 years before this lesson was read
The answer is: Caesar crossed the Rubicon 2074 years before this lesson was read
The answer is: Caesar crossed the Rubicon 2074 years before this lesson was read

9.[3p]

Which lessons carry forward from these ancient arguments?

Select all that apply

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Correct
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The answer is: A necessary connection between two claims does not make either claim necessary, Truth and knowledge track the world rather than constraining it, The surviving argument has the shape fixity plus connection plus transfer