RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating
July 21, 2013 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2013 at 5:43 pm by Angrboda.)
(July 21, 2013 at 4:37 pm)bennyboy Wrote:http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/ Wrote:Determinism: The world is governed by (or is under the sway of) determinism if and only if, given a specified way things are at a time t, the way things go thereafter is fixed as a matter of natural law."Fixed" is "set in stone," and is not "open."
The natural laws as we currently understand them are stochastic, being composed of random and non-random elements, thus no future event is "set in stone" by the natural laws if randomness plays a defining role in its causation.
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