著者

植村 恒一郎

出版者

日本科学哲学会

雑誌

科学哲学 (ISSN:02893428)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.2, pp.17-29, 2004-12-25 (Released:2009-05-29)

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Richard Taylor claims that fatalism can be constructed out of the law of excluded middle. While allowing that his argument is clear and meaningful, I argue that the fatalism constructed from the law of excluded middle considers two different times to be logically independent. This implies that fatalism rejects the flow of time. Michael Dummett criticizes fatalism in terms of the difference between "change the past" and "bring about the past". His trial of the backward causation suggests the weakness of fatalism.