RE: Free will
April 26, 2016 at 7:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2016 at 7:10 pm by Shadow_Man.)
Alasdair Ham,
This is much too cryptic. Please explain your terms, explain your logic, then demonstrate or justify it.
There is too much sub-text here. Please provide your definitions for me, explain why one is a redefinition of the other, explain what is silly, what is the genuine question, and what is being dodged.
I think you have me confused with dyresand. He is the one making irrelevant appeals to authority, not me. I do not know, nor do I care, what philosophers think. I think for myself and speak for myself.
I will participate in civil discussion only. I do not converse with people in real life who cannot get through 4 sentences without resorting to profanity, and I will not do so here on the internet, either. It is inevitable that conversing with me will frustrate you. If you are already so spun up that you cannot keep a civil tongue in your head, then don't bother responding to me. If you are able to control your temper and moderate your language, then by all means, let's talk.
Regards,
Shadow_Man
Alasdair Ham Wrote:If determinism is true, libertarian free will cannot exist.
If indeterminism is true, libertarian free will cannot exist.
This is much too cryptic. Please explain your terms, explain your logic, then demonstrate or justify it.
Alasdair Ham Wrote:In both cases compatabilist free will can exist, but it is simply "will" being redefined as "free will", it's a silly definition that dodges the genuine question.
There is too much sub-text here. Please provide your definitions for me, explain why one is a redefinition of the other, explain what is silly, what is the genuine question, and what is being dodged.
Alasdair Ham Wrote:Many philosophers go that route because it's an easy answer, a substitution for a genuine question -- and I'm not going to listen to an appeal to authority "But most philosophers are compatabilists" ...
I think you have me confused with dyresand. He is the one making irrelevant appeals to authority, not me. I do not know, nor do I care, what philosophers think. I think for myself and speak for myself.
Alasdair Ham Wrote:... I don't give a fuck.
I will participate in civil discussion only. I do not converse with people in real life who cannot get through 4 sentences without resorting to profanity, and I will not do so here on the internet, either. It is inevitable that conversing with me will frustrate you. If you are already so spun up that you cannot keep a civil tongue in your head, then don't bother responding to me. If you are able to control your temper and moderate your language, then by all means, let's talk.
Regards,
Shadow_Man