As I see it, free will is important to many because without it would mean each of is nothing more than an atomaton, which is anathema to the notion pe...
No doubt not even close to Hell, but okay. As long as you've asked, considering that he inflicts pain and misery to some degree or another on everyone...
Aside from the old saw that time exists to keep everything from happening at once, it only exists where successive events occurs. If absolutely nothin...
Only to a fair god and morally-minded people. Why can't god be an immoral slave owner (the god of Abraham does condone slavery) who delights in infect...
Eternal damnation is just one of the pieces that goes into the construction of the Christian scheme to draw in and keep paying members to its various ...
Why does there "have to be"? I've already conceded that QM events may be random, and I'm not about to qualify determinism every time I mention its ubi...
I'll let you figure out out which meaning I have in mind. il·?lu·?sion | \ i-?lü-zh?n \ plural illusions Definition of illusion 1a(1) : a misleading i...
Not if one takes the definition of "arbitrary" into consideration ar·bi·trar·y /?ärb??trer?/ adjective adjective: arbitrary based on random choice or ...
Okay, An illusion in this context is: the impression that when you do (did) something, you could just as well choose to do (have chosen to do) somethi...
The impression that when you do (did) something, you could just as well choose to do (to have done) something else instead. But I do want to hear abou...
Well it's that precision that makes all the difference. So yes, "capacity to act" is the same thing as having the "capacity to initiate an action" I a...
No, like everyone else, I only have the illusion of doing so. But one doesn't, in fact can't, choose. (We're talking freely choose as with a free will...
Not an argument at all, just two definitions. No it isn't. Whereas "capacity " is a noun indicating "actual or potential ability to perform, yield, or...
Suspect away, but just to remind you, it comes from my OP where I said, 1,172 words to be exact, but who cares other than yourself? And, you mistake a...
Compatibilism is the wimp's "Yah-but" way of skirting around their acceptance of determinism, and I have absolutely no interest in their "apologetics....
Thank you. External factors aside, yes. I'm not saying the determining causes must come from without, but only that they rob the will of freedom . . ....
Yesterday, post #4 by my count (Why the hell can't this site at least number posts?) I changed my definition of free will to "The power of acting with...
You're absolutely right. I posted it amid three Zoom conference calls and in considering the issue during my free time failed to connect nondeterminis...
Ahhh, 1.Highlight, 2.click on "Options" 3. click on the pencil 4. make the correction Thanks. It would help newbies a lot if these functions were plai...
I fail to see the import of the fact that A2a, the past is fixed, although true, bear B, the outcome will be what it will be. It's like, Okay, so what...
Damn web site. :rage: I don't know if it makes any difference, but what I meant to say, but was unable to correct, is "Whether an event is wholly dete...
I was going to reply, but decided not to so as not to take the thread off course. I suggest you make a separate thread to get feedback on your book. I...
In as much as the ability to predict X or any kind of knowledge of the factors behind it has absolutely nothing to do with the operation of determinis...
The fact of being required. How could it not be determined? Ahhhh, so that's it. I've always wondered what being free to desire what you desire to des...
But why is one desire ultimately more persuasive than another desire? And how did that "more persuasiveness" arise? First you said that will is desire...
Back to the drawing board with this, for rewrite, adjustment, clarification. Is not a desire a controlling influence? Even "controlling influence" is ...
It's interesting that after bemoaning the nature of a deterministic universe you end up saying, ". . . I do not believe in pure determinism. The way I...
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