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Soft Determinism, Hard Determinism, Necessitarianism, Fatalism...Huh?

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Soft Determinism, Hard Determinism, Necessitarianism, Fatalism...Huh?
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RE: Soft Determinism, Hard Determinism, Necessitarianism, Fatalism...Huh?
January 9, 2014 at 5:25 pm
(January 9, 2014 at 2:33 am)MindForgedManacle Wrote: The problem is that the usual idea of free will (i.e libertarian free will) is itself incoherent. The standard argument and regress problem just leave it in tatters. So no, it (compatibilism) isn't question-begging in the slightest.

When you need a definition of "free will" that no longer uses traditional definitions of "free" or of "will," then it's time just to say "free will doesn't exist." OR "free will is a mal-formed concept."

To spend chapters redefining free will in neurological terms, and then say it is compatible with determinism, is really just to say that neurology is deterministic. The whole process of equivocating on free will to arrive at that obvious conclusion is a bit derp.
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RE: Soft Determinism, Hard Determinism, Necessitarianism, Fatalism...Huh? - by bennyboy - January 9, 2014 at 5:25 pm

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