If you flipped a coin for every major decision in your life and believed that the choice of the coin had some kind of path laid out for you, what might this be called in philosophical terms?Are there any books, fictional or non-fiction that discuss this kind of thinking?
>>25240042Determinism. Yes, there are books about it.
>>25240050Ok, what are the most significant works about Determinism that you know of?
>>25240050Paradigmatic concept
Two-Faceism. Term coined by Harvey Dent.
>>25240068I hadn't thought about that character, I suppose you're right, although to what end the philosophy is developed with them, I can't say, I thought his facial gimmick and backstory was the push with him.
>>25240050>gatekeeping in the first postwhy bother
>>25240063what does this mean
>>25240042
>>25240042>what might this be calledretardism
>>25240042Not a coin but a dice roll, there's the The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, I know of it from the Talk Talk song Such a Shame.
>>25242176sounds like (You)r kind of bag.
idk but there's a futurama episode about a parallel universe where all the coin flips turned out oppositehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farnsworth_Parabox
>>25242165A sentence like "free will does not exist" is wholly dependent on historical ontology.
Destiny, fate>>25240050Determinism means no free will but it doesn't suggest there is a higher force laying your future out
>>25242283I think I see what you mean, it's a guessing game>>25242309fate is a good word, but I wondered if there was something more specific to a kind of magical item dictating the future like the butterfly effect or something
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipism
>>25242486many thanks anon
>>25240042Idk, but this is our only coin that I actually like. The heptagons tingle my 'tism.
Some /x/ schizo wrote a treatise about this once -- I remember reading it. It was the comprehensible kind of schizobabble, too.
they made a best selling book and oscar winning movie about this specific example of fatalism very recently
>>25242486I actually recommend this with the caveat that if you are not happy with the outcome of a flip just pick the other thing and be done with it.
>>25240042Dice Man
