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So that's the same thing as saying "the nature of God" no?

"Perspective" as in from some reference point or other. I'm not alluding to perception in that. As I said, "Our perception is just another perspective...

Where does Descartes say anything resembling, "I define 'thinking' as follows: if the thoughts in my head were not caused by me, there would be no me ...

The act of choosing, though that obviously requires options that can be chosen. There couldn't be any real possibilities (aside from one) if no choice...

You do for it to be causally-peggable, because that's what that term refers to.

Per what source?

We could say, "Without free will, there can be attribution (of thoughts, experiences, etc.), so there is a self." Or in other words, that's not actual...

That's a claim. There's no argument for that claim.

It doesn't causally peg it to that. Since that's not possible.

Yes, but what does that have to do with my post?

Again, I'm not a determinist. I'm addressing whether arguments work logically. I understand that. I'm addressing whether you have an argument for it t...

And not just perception. There's an error of thinking that an object is some way from a "perspectiveless perspective." There is no such thing. Our per...

Causes are the forces that necessarily result in property F (of some entity x) obtaining versus some other property. If c is the cause of F, then c ca...

For example: "I broke my leg in South Africa." Traveling to South Africa was a necessary condition for that to occur, but it certainly wasn't the caus...

No, of course not.

How bombs work is causally-peggable. I was just pointing out above that if they weren't, we wouldn't be able to take that bomb-planter to be the culpr...

If x didn't cause the event, E, that nonconsensually, physically harmed y (assuming it was a consent issue), then x is innocent of performing E to y, ...

If we can't do that, then we can't say that the bomb planter violated someone's consent, right? How would that help your argument?

Either you can specify the causal chain or you cannot. If you can, let's get to it. If you cannot, simply admit that.

Lol, no, you didn't. "Causally-peggable" isn't satisfied by saying "whatever caused it." It's only satisfied by pegging--that is, specifying and being...

If A is causally forced to do x, must A be able to do x?

Wow. Okay, so take me through the causal chain.

So, the reason I went into some detail about consent criteria wasn't so that I'd have to keep repeating it. So the first point here (I'll get to the r...

I've had five, maybe six (there's one that's not clear), people who were close to me commit suicide, and I dated a woman who had tried unsuccessfully ...

I hadn't made any comments about "respecting consent."

??? I'm not following you. There is more than one choice in that I can choose what album to listen to, I can choose which ice cream to eat, I can choo...

The idea of determinism isn't that it seems like there are no choices, that there is no freedom phenomenally. The idea is that the reality behind the ...

I don't believe her. I can believe that was her attitude when she was interviewed, but I know plenty of people who will say things in that vein at tim...

?? No idea what you're saying there.

Do you understand, though, that it could (logically) be the case that you're determined to do x? So A doing x implies nothing about freedom/free will....

It could (logically) be the case that you're determined to do x.

The idea is just that some choices are possible, contra the idea that none are.

Well, because it's a complete mess. We'd have to tackle one small thing at a time. And here you're making even more of a mess. To sort through all of ...

Yes, because all of a sudden you started piling a bunch of stuff on again with a long post. Remember "This keeps getting longer and longer and I hate ...

First, note that I believe there is free will. However: "If there were no free will, then no discussion about free will could take place" is false. Th...

What makes this the case, God or something else?

Not only that but most people would ask just what suffering/harm the antinatalists are talking about, where they'd only accept specific examples as an...

I don't see how it's not obvious with something like taste that (a) it's not the case that we're simply recording/reporting objective properties as if...

The way I see it, it boils down to one assertion: I have and can make a choice.

The UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) would like a word with you.

That sounds ridiculous though. You're not even talking about pain that anyone is experiencing? I'd only say yes because it's a specific action, done b...

Validity is relative to a logical system that we've adopted. For one, in traditional logic, any argument with contradictory premises is valid.

So you were thinking that I'm probably just not familiar with this?

Okay, but just in general. I mean, Andrew is apparently an adult still whining about having to eat broccoli and go to school or whatever. Is that the ...

Force is only an issue for specific actions. Not "forcing a capacity for x." So what pain are you talking about anyway?

What pain are you even talking about? Can you specify what you're talking about?

Again, no one is forcing anything on anyone by conceiving or giving birth to them. I don't know why you can't learn this.

There are so many problems with this. First off, let's say that something is inevitable that people do not desire. The problem with delaying that is? ...

What a f**ked view of the world. No one benefits from other people in any way?

By the way, you don't unintentionally CAUSE someone to be run over by a car when you give birth, either.