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Old 04-21-2008, 01:17 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by David
You have to realise (well I expect you do really) that those materialists that need to argue that all mental activity is equivalent to clockwork, do so by changing the meaning of phrases like "free will" and "consciousness" to try to fit what they think reality must be. After that, they get exasperated with people that want to use these words with their original meaning!
Wrong. I get exasperated because those people won't specify these elusive "original meanings" that they are supposedly using.

You people have not specified what you mean by free will. It's really that simple.

~~ Paul
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