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Critical Notice: John Earman's A Primer on Determinism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Abstract

Your story is there waiting for you, it has been waiting for you there a hundred years, long before you were born and you cannot change a comma of it. Everything you do you have to do. You are the twig, and the water you float on swept you here. You are the leaf, and the breeze you were borne on blew you here. This is your story and you cannot escape it.

—Cornell Woolrich, I Married a Dead Man

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 502 - 532
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Copyright © 1989 The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I'd like to thank Bob Batterman and Michael Friedman for helpful comments.

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