Local decisions are what the general disposition is made of, and apparently true prophecies decreed at any level of epistemic or ontological authority are not safe from local decisions, as they get to refute things by construction. A decision that defies a prophecy also defies the whole situation where you observe the prophecy, but counterfactually in that situation the prophecy would’ve been genuine.
if you get a true prophecy that you will kill your father and marry your mother, then all your attempts to avoid it will be what brings it about, and indeed in such a universe that is exactly what would happen
So this is incorrect, any claim of something being a “true prophecy” is still vulnerable to your decisions. If your decisions refute the prophecy, they also refute the situations where you (or anyone, including the readers, or the author, or the laws of physics) observe it as a “true prophecy”.
Local decisions are what the general disposition is made of, and apparently true prophecies decreed at any level of epistemic or ontological authority are not safe from local decisions, as they get to refute things by construction. A decision that defies a prophecy also defies the whole situation where you observe the prophecy, but counterfactually in that situation the prophecy would’ve been genuine.
So this is incorrect, any claim of something being a “true prophecy” is still vulnerable to your decisions. If your decisions refute the prophecy, they also refute the situations where you (or anyone, including the readers, or the author, or the laws of physics) observe it as a “true prophecy”.