RE: If free will was not real
August 17, 2016 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 4:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 17, 2016 at 4:46 pm)Irrational Wrote: I am free in that I can often times make choices without coercion,Can you?
Quote:and that these choices are often in accordance with who I am by nature.Irrelevant.
Quote:Now if you want to nitpick about what it means to be coerced, or who I am as a person, you might as well nitpick about what it means to be alive, or to love, or to be rational, and so on. If you go deep enough, and you want to be really technical, all these ideas end up being doubtable anyway.I'm sure any idea is doubtable, but that's a hell of a dodge. You're the one that chose to support an affirmation of free will with the ability to make uncoerced choices. It's actually just a reassertion, which is why establishing it would establish free will, or vv. Is it nitpicking to ask you to establish what you have repeatedly asserted?
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