/lit/ - Literature

>>4660460
>5.1362

>>4660475
But can you really describe a world in which that is possible? It seems to play free will against determinism without either winning out.
Anscombe's "Aristotle and the Sea Battle" is useful, I think:
>Aristotle thinks that it is necessity that the sun will rise, Wittgenstein says that we do not know that the sun will rise; and that the events of the future cannot be inferred logically from those of the present. But he also says that we could not say of a world not going according to law how it would look. So though he thinks that anything describable can happen, he would enquire whether the sun's not rising tomorrow is a describable event. So why does he say we do not know that the sun will rise? Not, I think, because the facts may falsify the prediction, but because there may not be any more facts: as in death the world does not change, but stops.