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    An agent's choice tomorrow may be determinate without any... — Carmelics
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    Supports→An agent can still have a genuine choice about a future action even if that future action is determinate (tenselessly true).

    An agent's choice tomorrow may be determinate without any present event causally determining that choice.

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    Being an eternalist one may distinguish between a determined future and a determinate future. Also this pair of concepts have different names in the literature. Sometimes determinism is called physical determinism, causal determinism or nomological determinism, whereas determinateness is named logical determinism, temporal determinism, or block determinism. A future event is determined now if and only if a present event is causally or nomologically sufficient for it to happen. In contrast, a fut

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