RE: Free will
May 27, 2016 at 9:43 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2016 at 10:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 21, 2016 at 5:11 pm)Ignorant Wrote: IF God knows everything, yes, you will do X no matter what. <= X is determinedIn this example you exclude -all- alternatives to x. The only choice I can make, such as it is, is x or x.
(May 26, 2016 at 5:32 pm)Ignorant Wrote:(May 26, 2016 at 4:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: ... Can I choose b, if gods foreknowledge says a?
No. Now, before you ignore everything I've written about this already, please reread: This, this and this. Then, think real hard about this
-and here you exclude the only alternative to a, in the set of a and b. The only choice I can make, such as it is, is a or a.
That's what I'm choosing, that's what I'm free willing, because you left nothing else - it is all that remains. That I'm choosing or free willing anything at all is only by your insistence to call it such....despite my own reservations. I've already told you I don't think we're talking about free wills once we maintain the above. Hell, it erodes our traditional folklore regarding choice too. Oh well.
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