“Fate” is commonly defined as a predetermined state or end: something that you have no control over and will occur whether you want it to or not. Most of the time, we apply this idea to events we have absolutely no control over, like running someone over in a car. In following with our example, there are basically two choices I can make; either get into my car, or not get into my car. I can do A, or refrain from doing A. Yet, if the statement, “I will get into my car today” is true, then how can I act otherwise? I would be making a true statement false. It is absurd that anyone could render false something that is true. It would be a simple contradiction. Therefore, if it is a true statement that I will get into my car, my choice has in fact been limited. I must get into my car, or else I would be making a true statement false

Another key argument for fatalism seems rests on a modal fallacy. Fallacious modal arguments set out to make part of a proposition necessary, while the whole of the proposition is not. For example:

The argument that fatalism rests on a modal fallacy shows the basic flaw underlying the concept of fatalism. The first proposition for the fatalism argument could be put as follows: “If it is a true statement that I will do A tomorrow, then necessarily I will do A tomorrow.” Again, necessity must apply to the entire proposition and not just part of it, in order to arrive at a necessary conclusion. Without the necessity of the entire statement, it can only be argued that “it logically follows that I will do A tomorrow.” My free will is not hindered without the necessary truth of all statements concerning my actions, past and future. Therefore, the denial of free will cannot follow from anything but the necessity of my actions; if my actions are not necessary, then they are avoidable, and the idea of fatalism is rendered mute.

(1a) It is necessary that if Smith is a bachelor then he is unmarried.

It is important to acknowledge the law of excluded middle when discussing true and false statements. The law is a follows: every meaningful statement, whether about oneself or anything else, is either true or false; that is,

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