RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating
July 15, 2013 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2013 at 9:55 am by MindForgedManacle.)
As others have pointed out Bennyboy, you seem to be making the mistake of confusing our epistemic situation regarding determinism with whether or not determinism is actually true. The reason scientists have a range with regard to their predictions is because there is technological limitations, coupled with inherent uncertainty when, say, measuring a system of quanta.
I should correct something I said earlier. While most philosophers are Compatibilists with regard to free will, that doesn't necessitate that they are determinists, because there is also the position one could take that says if determinism is true, so too would be compatibilism.
I should correct something I said earlier. While most philosophers are Compatibilists with regard to free will, that doesn't necessitate that they are determinists, because there is also the position one could take that says if determinism is true, so too would be compatibilism.