Asaris,
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The assumption is just the observation that we draw a distinction between the man who trips us accidentally and the man who does it on purpose…that's the difference between a free action and an unfree action.
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So freewill is the ability to act of one’s intentions(?) – I think I am pulling a straw man here but ill go on.
And an accident is an event that happened though circumstance, without one’s intentions.
Yet if the motivations behind our intentions we come from circumstantial sources then our intentions are not our own. Since all intentions happen though circumstance there is no freewill.
Yakk,
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I still hold your definition, or lack thereof, of free will to be ridiculous.
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I agree, though it is not my definition. It is one I picked up from various people. You are welcome to add a better one. At the moment I myself believe that the whole concept of free will is absurd.
Tiberry,
Indeed, the flaw of determinism is that causality cannot be proven to hold total sway over the universe. It was a mistake to base my first argument of determinism. Yet whether an action was caused or simply came to be does not make it free or of our will.
How exactly does everything being one give us a choice?
Being gods or having souls does not necessarily give us free will.