Determinism vs randomness
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In a message dated 7/18/2006 8:59:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rtsmitty at gmail.com writes:
Philip Baker,
I fail to see how free-will would make deterrents ineffective. Free
will in any common conception does not free the person from all
conceivable realities, only those of deterministic origins. As far as
anything would make sense to a human, actions must be grounded in
some conception of reality, and then the function of deterrents at
the level of intelligibility would continue to be as effective as
they ever could be. Because even if people have free will, the world
is not completely random (or even random enough, as would be
necessary to assume the ineffectiveness of deterrents), which
therefore presupposes another medium through which examination of an
idea such as deterrent is possible, and more effective.
Can you name a “reality” that IS NOT deterministic and free of random
discourse?
Bernard
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