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Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism?

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Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism?
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RE: Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism?
June 1, 2019 at 7:38 am
(May 29, 2019 at 6:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: You confuse contingent unpredictability with non-determinism.

(May 29, 2019 at 6:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The fact that there seems to you to be a gap into which you think you can insert a belief in choice that is founded solely on your affinity towards the saccharine notion of choice is not an excuse to present that belief as anything more than sheer fantasy.

Some determinists try to define themselves as correct. My position is that this does violence to our ability to communicate different distinctions by trying to define some words in ways which rob them of any useful meanings. I'm a pragmatist in that sense.
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RE: Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism? - by Alan V - June 1, 2019 at 7:38 am

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