On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:39 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > It took you 25 minutes to read, digest, and write a response. You're > obviously not taking my request seriously. You did exactly what I thought > you'd do. > > We can't even get to the question what SORT of capacity free will actually is > because you can't seem to grasp the fact that it has to be SOME kind of > freedom or agency to even be called free will. You're disagreeing with the > most basic part of the concept that no source fails to mention. You are > defying every encyclopedia and dictionary on this point. > So I'm all done talking to you. Besides, I've got friends to kiss, frisbees > to throw and steaks to grill.
Did you also notice that it took you about the same time to read, digest, and write a response to my post? Should I be as offended as you seem to be by that fact? (Plus, you didn't even respond to my previous post let alone the last one.) Anyway, I DO understand that free will is a particular sort of capacity to choose. Since when has _that_ been the issue? What I have been saying all along is that _all_ choosing need not be regarded as that _particular_ sort while you have been maintaining that choice necessarily presupposes free will in opposition to determinism. I don't see choice as a necessarily metaphysical concept (or I wouldn't use the word). All I mean by it is that we do one thing and not another. All that is required for moral responsibility is that someone else in a similar situation could have acted differently. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
