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    Supports→The denial of future contingent truth is not sufficient to avoid the problem of theological fatalism.

    The quasi-truth move presupposes a robust truthmaker for 'quasi-true' propositions, but without such a truthmaker, quasi-truth collapses into a relabeling that does not restore the fatalist inference.

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    Key Terms

    Fatalist inference(in logic)
    The logical argument or chain of reasoning that supposedly proves fatalism is true.
    Quasi-truth(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    A weaker form of truth where something seems true or works as if it's true, even if it might not be completely true in the strictest sense.
    Relabeling(as used in this philosophical critique)
    Giving something a new name or label without actually changing what it really is.
    Robust(in the discussion of mathematical properties)
    Strong, reliable, and stable—something that doesn't break or change significantly when conditions vary slightly.
    fatalism(Presented as a consequence allegedly entailed by backward causation.)

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    The view that all events are fixed in advance and inevitable, such that agents cannot do otherwise than they do.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
    truthmaker(Armstrong's truthmaker argument)
    Something in the world which makes a given truth the case and serves as its ontological ground

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