On 7/9/2025 4:31 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
/> You must know that is meant by someone's will./
*I know that just like everything else, someone's willis the way it is
for a reason and is therefore deterministic OR is the way it is for no
reason and is therefore random. *
*So you don't believe there's any distinction between a coerced choice
and a non-coerced choice of action.*
/>Your pretend confusion is an example of sophistry./
*In a philosophical argument if your opponent starts waving his hands
andrunning around screaming "sophistry" and"you know what I mean"then
you have won the argument. Your feeling that you only need to look at
the surface everyday meaning of words to make profound philosophical
discoveries is naïve. *
*And if your opponent just denies he knows the meaning of words he can
claim his philosophy is more profound.*
> /You can look it up in the dictionary./
*Ah** the dictionary, the wonderful wonderful dictionary, that fount
of all knowledge containing the definitions of words, that are made of
words, which also have definitions that are also made of words that
are also in the dictionary which [...]. *
*
*
*What is the definition of coerce? To compel. What is the definition
of compel? To coerce. And round and round we go. *
*So you don't know the meaning of coerce...to bad you missed that in
school. Since email is communication in words and you're willing to lie
about knowing what they mean, I see no point in further discussion.
Brent*
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