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Fate, Time, and Language and This Is Water by David Foster Wallace

March 30, 2011

Leland de la Durantaye

Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will BY David Foster Wallace. edited by Steven M. Cahn, Maureen Eckert, Jay Garfield, James Ryerson. Columbia University Press. Paperback, 252 pages. $19.

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The cover of Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will

"Since obviously under any analysis I have to do either O or O´ (since O´ is not-O), that is, since �–�(O v O´) . . . " Got it? A posthumous book by David Foster Wallace grapples with questions about fatalism and free will.