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    The principle of the fixity of the past should be replace... — Carmelics
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    The principle of the fixity of the past should be replaced with the principle of the fixity of the independent.

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    • 1.What's fixed isn't the past in toto, but so much of the past as isn't dependent on the future.
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    • 2.The fixity of the past, insofar as the past is fixed, is derivative from the fixity of the independent.
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    • 1.The asymmetry between past and future is grounded in causal directionality, not dependence relations, making 'fixity of the independent' explanatorily derivative.
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    • 2.David Lewis's analysis of counterfactual dependence already accounts for backtracking cases without abandoning the primacy of temporal asymmetry in fixing modal facts.
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    • 3.Replacing temporal fixity with independence-fixity smuggles in a controversial metaphysics of causation that the original incompatibilist argument need not presuppose.
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    • 1.Hasker and Zagzebski argue that if past divine beliefs depend on future free acts, God's beliefs become modally fragile in ways that undermine robust divine omniscience.
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    • 2.A God whose past beliefs are 'unfixed' because dependent on future contingents cannot serve as the epistemic anchor that theological fatalism requires, dissolving rather than solving the foreknowledge problem.
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    Swenson (2016) argues that what’s fixed isn’t the past in toto, but so much of the past as isn’t dependent on the future. Rather than modifying the principle of the fixity of the past, Law (2020) advocates junking it altogether and replacing it with the principle of the fixity of the independent. Law (2021) continues the case for replacing the fixity of the past with the fixity of the independent by arguing that the former, insofar as the past is fixed, is derivative from the latter. In two recent papers, Ryan Wasserman stakes out positions that differ from most other defenders of the dependen...

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