On May 2, 2011, at 1:39 PM, david buchanan wrote:
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> MarshaV said to Steve:
> Isn't free will dependent on causation, and isn't causation, in the MoQ, an
> explanatory extension of a pattern?
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> Marsha later added:
> It was a rhetorical question. I mean causation is pattern, regularities,
> convention. Explanation relies on patterns. Patterns are explained by
> referring to further patterns. Patterns (analogies) all the way down.
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> dmb says:
> Word salad, anyone?
>
> When we're making meaningful sentences the order of the ingredients is
> crucial. That's why we put words in neat rows. When we're tossing a salad, on
> the other hand, we want the various elements to be randomly distributed in a
> mixed jumble. Fruit salad I like. Your sentences, not so much.
Marsha:
Right. You talk of cookies & milk, arrows, runners, bullets, basketballs,
hockey pucks and logic chopping, but accuse me of word salad.
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