(April 4, 2014 at 8:02 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Isn't that semantics? What is important is what you derive from determinism. Some would suggest that this removed choice from linear time beings, where this is clearly false.
No, it's not "just semantics", which even if it was is not much of a criticism. Semantics happen to be very important.
What I did was show that given determinism, there can be no such thing as making a choice that could have been otherwise. Under determinism, there is a fact of the matter about how things will be beforehand, which is incompatible with libertarian free will.
