RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 27, 2012 at 9:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2012 at 9:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Whateverist, when you ask "who decides" you're assuming a top down model of thought, which is not what we understand our thought processes to be at this time. Bottom up, the decision is an effect. "What is reasonable" has been "decided" by trial and error, by reference to external things. Again, it was a bottom up process. All of those pretty latin words that we call fallacies were at some point considered to be both sound and valid, it was only by attempting to match the conclusions that we came to based upon their use with what we perceive to be reality that we realized something had gone horribly awry.
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