RE: Free will
June 26, 2016 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2016 at 3:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 26, 2016 at 2:35 pm)Shadow_Man Wrote: Interesting question.That you failed to answer. Instead going for a tenuous TQ.
Quote:From the very start of this thread we have both presented Free Will and choice as basically synonymous. If you wish to now represent them otherwise, then I personally do indeed need a bit more to be said than just a sound byte declaring that to be an equivocation. Please clarify/explain.We most definitely do not. Regardless of whether or not there is, in actuality, any possible future in which I "choose b"....we still describe going with a as "choosing a". I simply don;t see how I might argue or establish that my choosing A -or- B is an issue of free will, without invoking special sauce, thus scuttling my argument just as effectively and for the same reason as equivocating between choice and free will. It's sloppy and uninformative thinking. That's -regardless- of whether or not any being posessess foreknowledge, or foreknowledge is possible.
Quote:While you are at it, I wouldn't mind a reply to post #202.Sure, lemme give her a look.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
