Grice on indeterminism and some otiose formations

-- by JLS
---- for the GC

I haven't checked if Determinism or an analogue is one of the 12 betes noires Grice meets somewhere in the outdoors.

--- But he played with 'indeterminism' ("and chance as likely to infuriate the scientist without aiding the moral philosopher" -- "Actions and Events" 1986).

Now Determinism is said (most likely) to be a back-formation from

Prae-Determinismus

which makes a lot of sense. Aristotle's sea-battle. Cfr. Chrysippus.

How can we prae-determine, TODAY, the truth-value for

1. There will be a sea-battle tomorrow.

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It's not like

2. Either there will be a sea-battle tomorrow or there will not be a sea-battle tomorrow.

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I propose to coin

post-determinism.

You know how von-Wright sometimes was amused by Dilthey's sciences of the 'ghost' (Geistwissenschaften, in Dilthey's vernacular). von-Wright claims that these don't count as 'sciences' because they proceed

'ex post facto'.

I.e. they are post-determinist, in my jargon.

Or not.