On Jun 4, 10:14 pm, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 4, 8:57 pm, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> If you want to think that, fine. If it upsets you, I'm sorry. If it > >> upsets you and therefore you conclude that it's not true, then your > >> thinking is fallacious. > > > There's nothing upsetting about it, I just don't understand how we can > > talk about deciding that we are powerless to make decisions. I'm > > trying to figure out how that makes sense to anyone. > > If it doesn't make sense to you then you can append "pseudo-" whenever > you talk about deciding something or having free will. We make > pseudo-decisions and have pseudo-free will. People who make bad > pseudo-decisions get into trouble; I did it against my pseudo-will > because he held a gun to my head; and so on.
If it's causally efficacious (gets real people into real trouble) the it can't be pseudo. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
