Before revision: Logical determinism is the view that a proposition in the future tense (‘There will be a sea-battle tomorrow’) is true or false now, and that what makes it true or false is the present existence of a state of affairs – a truthmaker.Buckner and Zupko, Duns Scotus on Time and Existence: The Questions on Aristotle's 'De interpretatione' , Translated with Introduction and Commentary by Edward Buckner and Jack Zupko, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014, p. 318 If so, then the future is determined in the sense that the way things are now – namely the existence state of affairs that makes ‘There will be a sea-battle tomorrow’ true or false – determines the way that things will be.
After revision: Logical determinism is the view that a proposition in the future tense (‘There will be a sea-battle tomorrow’) is true or false now, and that what makes it true or false is the present of a state of affairs – a truthmaker.Buckner and Zupko, Duns Scotus on Time and Existence: The Questions on Aristotle's 'De interpretatione' , Translated with Introduction and Commentary by Edward Buckner and Jack Zupko, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014, p. 318 If so, then the future is determined in the sense that the way things are now – namely the existence state of affairs that makes ‘There will be a sea-battle tomorrow’ true or false – determines the way that things will be.