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Old 04-25-2008, 07:52 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by David
"the partial freedom of the agent, in acts of conscious choice, from the determining compulsion of heredity, environment and circumstance."

The problem is immediately obvious - the definition depends on the definitions of: ... compulsion
Yup, and that's a loaded word if I've ever heard one. Does compulsion include determinism?

If that's the best definition anyone can come up with, then there is no point to this conversation at all.

~~ Paul
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