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Old 12-02-2007, 02:58 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by Interesting Ian
You've defined determinism as not random. So obviously free will is compatible with determinism. It's not a kind of free will which is compatible, but free will in the sense that everyone means it. Unless you wish to backtrack on your definition of determinism?
You lost me. Random is defined as not deterministic, not the other way around. The libertarians have to show that there is room in "random" for whatever it is that they want as the third contributor to decision making.

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