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Originally Posted by The Omniscient One
You are confusing two principles. Most free willists have admited that decisions are caused. They just have not admited that they are determined.
Principle of Universal Causation - All things are caused.
Principle of Universal Determinism - All things are caused in such a manner that they could not have been any other way.
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I
realize that causal chains
could have gone differently, you smug prig, but that's strictly hypothetical--still not a proof that free will can be reconciled with determinism. The choice was
still caused by something prior and, as such, was not free.
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I have a different base for libertarianism.
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Oh
really? Well aren't you just a fountain of philosophical originality? Let's hear it then.
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