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Is there a name in philosophy for the idea that probability isn't real? That everything that ever happens must always have happened, and everything that ever doesn't happen could never have happened?
For a while I've had this idea that if you flipped a coin - which one would assume to have a 50/50 chance of landing on either heads or tails - and the coin ends up landing on heads, then surely that means, by virtue that the coin *did* ultimately land on heads, that it could only *ever* have landed on heads, and could never have landed on tails.
I believe that the idea that I'm describing is not fatalism. Fatalism suggests that there is a grander esoteric force necessitating that all things be the way they are. My idea is that all things must be the way they are as an entailment from the fact that they are.
Is there a term for this kind of idea? And is it fallacious and if so why?
u/Aramaki_ — 2 days ago