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- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: free will
- Message-ID: <7214@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:33:04 GMT
- References: <1992Aug7.203349.19645@cis.umassd.edu> <14910003@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
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- In article <14910003@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> ric@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes:
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- > Thus I can't prove to you that you have no free will
- >by confronting you with a choice that you have no choice but to make.
-
- The whole idea of such a proof seems a bit strange.
-
- It might be possible to show that the subject didn't have a free
- choice in that one case, but something more than such a confrontation
- would be needed if the aim was to show that the person didn't have
- free will at all.
-
- Still, I think a reasonable way to proceed is too look for constraints
- and limitations on free will and then see what (if anything) is left.
-
- -- jd
-