Re: Determinism

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 15:13:40 BST

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    On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:46:25AM -0500, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > On 9 Apr 2001, at 15:49, Robin Faichney wrote:
    >
    > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:59:38AM -0500, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > > > On 5 Apr 2001, at 8:36, Robin Faichney wrote: > > > I don't think
    > > it's entirely rational either, but you'll find there's > > quite a
    > > widespread preference for objectivity over subjectivity. > > > Which
    > > is quite strange, considering that objectivity is unattainable; > the
    > > best we can do is intersubjective agreement.
    > >
    > > So that's not your reason for rejecting subjective/objective
    > > compatibilism. Interesting.
    > >
    > The entire idea that objectively we are superdetermined marries a
    > conjecture with apodictically self-evident experiential evidence
    > contradicting it to a nonexistent and self-contradictory 'god's-eye
    > view".

    Leaving aside the grandiose jargonizing, I broadly agree. But this
    puzzles me: do you think that "subjective/objective compatibilism"
    implies "objectively we are superdetermined"?

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    Robin Faichney
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