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Determinism doesnt make a claim on what should be done. In one sense Determinism is descriptive whereas fatalism is prescriptive, if one views fatalism as a psychological attitude. Fatalism is the idea that all events are predetermined by events and therefore they ''must happen''. In another sense, there is a logical connection between determinism and fatalism, which relates to declarative statements. These are generally very obtuse arguments that people not interested in philosophy find overly obscurantist. For example, if one says that a person shaved this morning, and he did, this can leave open the possibility of violation of the principle of non-contradiction. If the person in this example had the ability not to shave (determism), because this could render him the ability to make a true statement false. Aristotle provided one famous counter to this type of argument.<ref>https://science.jrank.org/pages/9331/Fatalism-Aristotle-s-Sea-Battle.html</ref>