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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Free will
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.200956.13790@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:09:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul19.014518.13885@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Jul20.051558.14985@news.eng.convex.com> <LEE.92Jul21150620@meercat.wang.com>
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- In article <LEE.92Jul21150620@meercat.wang.com> lee@wang.com (Lee Story) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul20.051558.14985@news.eng.convex.com> cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
- ...
- > Yes, I share your puzzlement. I simply don't understand how people can
- > discuss "free will" in this thread without ever telling anyone what it is,
- > and I have no idea whatever what physics has to do with this "free will".
-
- >Is this an in-joke about definition (or word-games, or
- >deconstruction)? Well if it isn't, I have the same problem with
- >"share" and "puzzlement", to say nothing of "understand" and "tell"
- >and "idea" and "do". And what the hell is this "physics" stuff? (If
- >Peter Cash merely feels that more terminological clarity is needed, he
- >should attempt to provide it, rather than just Socratically---and
- >rather pompously---complaining.)
-
- Well if the question is so simple, then why don't you answer it? What _is_
- "free will"? I've already admitted that _I_ don't know what you're talking
- about--could it be you don't either?
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