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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Mere semantics? What is philosophy if not semantics?
Anyhoo, libertarian free will is an incoherent concept, so if that's the one we're going to use in this discussion, we're finished.
~~ Paul |
There is no point in discussions that reduce to semantics - I am much happier to fix the meaning of words or phrases, than quibble over what they mean.
Clearly, people like Ian and I want 'free will' to mean essentially what 99% of humanity mean by this phrase. By that understanding, nothing that is equivalent to a mechanism can possess free will. Your materialist viewpoint means that you think it is appropriate to subtly change the meaning of free will - OK, fine, but why not admit that, and use a different term - pseudo-free will (PFW).
David