Free WillGary Watson The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work. |
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... render it false . On my view , this thesis is mistaken , and Taylor's arguments for it can be shown to be unsound . I shall not , however , argue for this here . I shall argue in Part III that we are unable to render certain sorts of ...
... render it false . On my view , this thesis is mistaken , and Taylor's arguments for it can be shown to be unsound . I shall not , however , argue for this here . I shall argue in Part III that we are unable to render certain sorts of ...
Page 53
... render Q false . This principle seems to be analytic . For if Q entails R , then the denial of R entails the denial ... render the conjunction of Q and R false , then S can render R false . 8 See Saul Kripke , ' Identity and Necessity ...
... render Q false . This principle seems to be analytic . For if Q entails R , then the denial of R entails the denial ... render the conjunction of Q and R false , then S can render R false . 8 See Saul Kripke , ' Identity and Necessity ...
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... render it false if and only if I can visit Alaska . If , for some reason , it is not within my power ever to visit Alaska , then I cannot render it false . This is a quite trivial assertion , and the general principle ( above ) of which ...
... render it false if and only if I can visit Alaska . If , for some reason , it is not within my power ever to visit Alaska , then I cannot render it false . This is a quite trivial assertion , and the general principle ( above ) of which ...
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