RE: Free will
May 21, 2016 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2016 at 5:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Why are you commenting upon determinism? Does it matter? You've overlooked fatalism, absurdism...etc.
...then you -must- drink the gin and tonic, or the claim to foreknowledge is false. No "free will" there, regardless of there being a choice (and I prefer actual choices to metaphysical choices, thx).
Quote:One quick example. I drank a gin and tonic tonight. I, being human, am the sort of thing which is metaphysically capable of having a coca cola instead. If an all-knowing God eternally knew that I would drink that gin and tonic,-snipped-
...then you -must- drink the gin and tonic, or the claim to foreknowledge is false. No "free will" there, regardless of there being a choice (and I prefer actual choices to metaphysical choices, thx).
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