A Christian Philosophy

LFW or compatibilism are not presupposed. As quoted below, you said that intent implies agency. I responded that it does not if there is no initial st...

I thought we were setting aside any mentions of LFW/compatibilism. :wink: Since you're asking... LFW allows the causal chain to branch out to multiple...

I’ll respond either tomorrow or Sunday.

Alright. Let's remove the word "necessitated". That decision was caused by prior factors - my response, your beliefs, mood, etc. I still see no distin...

But that decision was necessitated by prior factors - my response, your beliefs, mood, etc. I see no distinction in any of the steps to make one of th...

Which step in the process is the initial step?

I accept that the arm-lifting was intentional. But I believe another criteria for agency is the capacity to initiate an action. Can you defend that th...

So far so good. Where do we go from here?

I agree with the description up to and including "I lift my arm once I realize the alarm is sounding." After that, ... The arm lifting is caused by th...

Alright, let's reset and find some common ground. I dropped the points that I believe are not essential. Yes, the factors (beliefs, dispositions, mood...

I'm afraid we are making very little progress. Here's an attempt at answering a few objections but I'm not hopeful we will reach an agreement and we m...

In other words, we reward and penalize certain behaviours as a form of conditioning, like training dogs to behave a certain way. This objection is add...

These mental processes are not ignored in LFW. They are part of the decision mechanism but they only serve to inform, not compel. The mental process s...

Alternative decisions are possible if we have the power of LFW which gives us exactly that: the ability to make alternative decisions. This power woul...

Libertarian free will (LFW) and randomness are similar in that they are both free (i.e. not determined), but a free-willed behaviour is ordered toward...

Not an argument against compatibilism, but for info, under libertarian free will, all these things are real and they inform and influence our decision...

I only brought the word "soul" because you brought it up in your previous comment. If it does not speak to you, we can just drop the word entirely and...

Here is one misunderstanding. When you speak of "internal factors", I think you mean any factors inside the body: beliefs, desires, genes, etc; and by...

Given the lack of progress in the discussion, it's possible we are not going to reach an agreement. I can try a few more times to show why I disagree ...

I agree that we have real agency, and yet this is not possible under necessitarianism where all actions from every part, like cogs, are necessary. I a...

Sure. I accept the burden of proof to defend the existence of libertarian free will. For now, I'll continue to argue that compatibilist free will lead...

I understand your view of compatibilism but I don't understand why this does not entail fatalism. If all choices are the product of factors (internal ...

After doing a bit of research, it seems that modal collapse or necessitarianism is problematic because it removes the freedom that seems intuitive in ...

My understanding is that modal collapse or necessitarianism is not strictly speaking impossible, but it is undesirable because it leads to absurd conc...

I believe in a hard version of the PSR: everything must have a reason/explanation/ground. No exception; not for the fundamental laws of nature or for ...

As per the OP, there are 3 types of reasons that fulfill the PSR. Reasons type 1 and type 3 are necessary reasons. Type 2 is a contingent reason and a...

An agent having the power of free will implies two things. 1. The agent has many things to choose from (in this case, many possible worlds can be desi...

I agree that the ontological grounding (OG) must exist necessarily and so it is the same in all possible worlds. But now we can entertain the idea tha...

What kind of necessity are you referring to? There are only two kinds of necessity: internal and external; that is, logical (or inherent) necessity an...

Even an OG needs to fulfill the PSR. This is done by the OG having existence inherently, such that the statement "this being-that-inherently-exists ex...

Since the laws of nature are not tautologies, they are contingent facts that need an explanation outside of themselves, i.e., a cause. As such, the OG...

Yes, I agree that there is an OG. I am unclear from your comment whether you agree with the conclusion from the OP, that the fundamental laws of natur...

Okay, that makes sense!

This is nitpick, but is the definition of "rock" so clear and tight that it cannot allow for the logical possibility of a rock being asleep or awake? ...

Interesting. Yeah, I can see how excluding the law of excluded middle makes sense in database programming.

To be honest, I still don't fully agree with your view on the fundamental laws of logic. But I enjoyed the chat. Cheers!

Right. My last comment could have been clearer. What I meant was "the glass is half full" and "the glass is half empty", where empty is contradictory ...

Hmm... I still suspect this whole thing is just a play on words, where "possibly P" and "possibly not P" do not fit the desired format for the LNC and...

Here is my point again in a syllogism: P1: LEM says one or the other must be true when "P" and "not P" contradict. P2: "possibly P" and "possibly not ...

I'd still argue that adding the mode "possibly" does not violate the law of excluded middle (LEM). LEM says "either P or not P, and no third option". ...

Excellent!

Not quite. Running the statement through the law of excluded middle gives: "there will possibly be a sea battle tomorrow" or "there will not possibly ...

My point is that most people do not question that causes exist and do not ask what causes are because the word is already clear. I don't see a reason ...

If I understand correctly, the fundamental laws of logic exist in all possible worlds, and they are contravened only in impossible worlds. Is that rig...

I'm pretty sure most people agree that causes are real. And this statement "causes are real" can be understood exactly as what is meant when used in t...

But there is a shwack load of situations with real possibilities. This would make the application of the law of excluded middle to be so infrequent th...

You say here: But you say here: I personally side with the second claim.

If we allow the fundamental laws of logic to change and not be part of fundamental reality, wouldn't that make all mentions of possible worlds meaning...

It is not necessary to know the "how" in order to know the "why". For a simpler example: Ball A hits Ball B which then moves. We don't know exactly ho...

Could you provide a specific example of future event not following the rules? Using Aristotle's sea battle example: Either there will be a sea battle ...