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    The agent's future choice causally determines what is tru... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The determinacy of the future does not exclude people from having free will.

    The agent's future choice causally determines what is true today about that choice, not the other way around.

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    In contrast, the eternalist could argue that the reason why it is true today that an agent will visit her parents tomorrow is because the agent makes a decision that causally determines her visit before she goes to see them. If the agent makes the opposite decision tomorrow, it will be true today that she will not visit her parents. Whatever she chooses tomorrow, it will be her decision which makes it true today that she is going to see her parents. The outcome of her decision tomorrow is determ

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