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    Retroactive causation by the agent's future choice cannot... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The determinacy of the future does not exclude people from having free will.

    Retroactive causation by the agent's future choice cannot dissolve the logical fixity of a truth already possessed by a past proposition.

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    • 1.Past propositions possess truth-values independent of future events; changing the future cannot retroactively alter what was true.
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    • 2.Logical fixity means a true proposition cannot become false. Future choices cannot unmake past truths without violating non-contradiction.
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    • 3.Agency requires choosing among genuinely open alternatives, but retroactive causation would make past facts depend on future decisions.
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    • 1.If past and future are equally real (eternalism), temporal direction is conventional; retroactive influence is logically coherent.
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    • 2.Truth-values may not inhere in propositions independent of complete spacetime context; a full description includes future boundary conditions.
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    • 3.The claim confuses logical necessity with temporal causation. Future choices might determine which past proposition was the true one.
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