On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>> "Free Will" is the inability to predict your own actions even in a >> stable environment. >> > > > Yes, that's (almost) my definition. > It can't be unless you've recently changed your definition. You said on May 11, 2010: "I don't see how the notion of moral responsibility make sense without free-will. Without free-will everyone is innocent. Free-will is why there are prisons." That statement is ridiculous using my definition, it isn't coherent, it isn't even "almost" coherent. > Such definition belongs to the compatibilist theories of free-will. There > are books on this. > Your problem, and that of most philosophers, is that you don't know the difference between a theory and a definition; as a result you spend a great deal of time trying to prove something (we have free will) but not only are you unable to prove it you don't even know what you're trying to prove. > You do the same error with "free will" than with "God". You decide to > take the most gibberish sense of the word to critize the idea, > When I write the word "God" I mean the same thing, or close to it, that most people mean. But when you write the letters G-o-d you mean something so general and innocuous (something greater than yourself) that the result is only a fool would say he doesn't believe in God. The only reason I can figure why somebody would want to do that is if they just wanted to make the noise "I believe in God" and didn't care what if anything that vocalization meant. > instead of using the less gibberish sense, to focus on what we really try > to talk and share about. > If you were really interested in ideas and not in just words you wouldn't use the ASCII sequence "G-o-d" that virtually guarantees you will be misunderstood because it contains far more baggage than any other word in the English language. Far far more! John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
