Freddoso's and Flint's supplementary commitments are not independent rejections of fatalism but are themselves entailed by accepting Middle Knowledge as a foundational explanatory framework.
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Supplementary commitments(as beliefs that follow from accepting Middle Knowledge)
Additional beliefs or positions that someone accepts in addition to their main view; in this case, extra ideas that Freddoso and Flint add to support their larger theory.
entailed(as used in logic)
When one thing logically forces another thing to be true—if the first is true, the second must be true too.
fatalism(Presented as a consequence allegedly entailed by backward causation.)
The view that all events are fixed in advance and inevitable, such that agents cannot do otherwise than they do.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.