Re: [jboske] factivity of nu

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> > because you are one of those people, the name for which I forget, who
> > believes that whatever happens is what must happen, or to restate this,
> > whatever can happen, does happen?
> 
> Predestinationist? Determinist? I'm a determinist, but that doesn't stop 
> me reasoning about potential and impossible worlds. 

Fatalism is one of its names, but this is also used for the psychological
attitude of gloom about the future. Parmenides held this view.
Its name appears in Kripke's _Naming and Necessity_, along with the
description "all truths are necessary, all properties are internal
[essential]".

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