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Free will and you.
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RE: Free will and you.
March 17, 2016 at 7:56 am
(March 16, 2016 at 4:11 pm)RozKek Wrote:
(March 15, 2016 at 1:01 pm)robvalue Wrote: Be careful to avoid the "free will fallacy"!

It comes in the form:

If there is no free will, then we should do X.

Contradiction in terms.

Do you refer to when people say "If free will doesn't exist then I'll do nothing because it won't be my choice anyway."? etc.
Not doing anything would still be choosing to do something which is nothing. Tongue
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Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 14, 2016 at 3:02 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 14, 2016 at 3:14 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 14, 2016 at 3:27 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by Ravenshire - March 14, 2016 at 3:35 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 14, 2016 at 3:46 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by Angrboda - March 14, 2016 at 3:47 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by Aroura - March 14, 2016 at 10:04 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 11:11 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by Aroura - March 15, 2016 at 5:21 am
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 15, 2016 at 11:39 am
RE: Free will and you. - by Minimalist - March 14, 2016 at 3:21 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 3:28 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 14, 2016 at 3:32 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 14, 2016 at 3:33 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by brewer - March 14, 2016 at 3:37 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 14, 2016 at 4:03 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by brewer - March 14, 2016 at 5:30 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 14, 2016 at 4:05 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by drfuzzy - March 14, 2016 at 4:07 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 4:26 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 14, 2016 at 4:34 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 14, 2016 at 4:42 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by downbeatplumb - March 14, 2016 at 5:36 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 5:47 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 14, 2016 at 5:56 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 6:01 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 14, 2016 at 6:11 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 6:23 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 14, 2016 at 6:51 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by Ryantology - March 14, 2016 at 7:19 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 7:56 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by Ryantology - March 14, 2016 at 9:04 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 9:16 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by Ryantology - March 14, 2016 at 9:28 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 15, 2016 at 4:02 am
RE: Free will and you. - by Silver - March 14, 2016 at 9:29 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 15, 2016 at 4:20 am
RE: Free will and you. - by ErGingerbreadMandude - March 15, 2016 at 4:10 am
RE: Free will and you. - by robvalue - March 15, 2016 at 5:34 am
RE: Free will and you. - by Alex K - March 15, 2016 at 5:37 am
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 15, 2016 at 6:24 am
RE: Free will and you. - by robvalue - March 15, 2016 at 12:50 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by robvalue - March 15, 2016 at 1:01 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 16, 2016 at 4:11 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by ErGingerbreadMandude - March 17, 2016 at 7:56 am
RE: Free will and you. - by The Grand Nudger - March 15, 2016 at 1:03 pm
RE: Free will and you. - by ignoramus - March 17, 2016 at 12:19 am
RE: Free will and you. - by deleteduser12345 - March 17, 2016 at 6:45 am
RE: Free will and you. - by ignoramus - March 17, 2016 at 6:48 am

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