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    If it fails at one of these earlier steps, the fatalistic... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The fatalistic inference to (10) is blocked regardless of whether steps (1)-(8) succeed or fail.

    If it fails at one of these earlier steps, the fatalistic argument fails full stop.

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    If this is correct, the following dilemma critique of theological fatalism becomes available (Hunt 2017a). Either the argument fails somewhere along the way to (8), or it succeeds up through (8). If it fails at one of these earlier steps, it fails full stop. That’s the obvious horn of the dilemma. But if it reaches step (8) successfully, and reaches it for those reasons, we have a case in which you cannot do otherwise than answer the phone tomorrow morning, but you are presumptively free in doing so, since you are acting on your own, and the circumstances that deprive you of alternatives do no...

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