RE: The free will argument demonstrates that christians don't understand free will.
May 2, 2014 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2014 at 1:56 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
No! Those decisions still involve not swimming!
If you walk away, then you didn't swim.
If you yodled rather than swim, then you didn't swim.
If you picked your nose rather than swim, then you didn't swim.
The dichotomy of swimming or not swimming is exhaustive, encompassing all typical choices and all novel choices.
By the way, I had just decided to add this part before you responded.
"However, I'm saying that this conditionality is inherently probabilistic (see conditional probability). Instances of absolute conditionality, i.e. the choice isn't even possible, are just instances where the conditional probability is 0."
If you walk away, then you didn't swim.
If you yodled rather than swim, then you didn't swim.
If you picked your nose rather than swim, then you didn't swim.
The dichotomy of swimming or not swimming is exhaustive, encompassing all typical choices and all novel choices.
By the way, I had just decided to add this part before you responded.
"However, I'm saying that this conditionality is inherently probabilistic (see conditional probability). Instances of absolute conditionality, i.e. the choice isn't even possible, are just instances where the conditional probability is 0."
