Re: Determinism

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    On 12 Apr 2001, at 9:35, Robin Faichney wrote:

    > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:01:41AM -0500, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > > On 11 Apr 2001, at 15:13, Robin Faichney wrote: > > > 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"? > > > Only if what is meant is that the hypothetical
    > superdeterminism is > somehow more real, and the subjective and
    > itersubjective experiental > reality from which it, and indeed all
    > ideas, are derived is thus maya.
    >
    > And do you think that's what I mean?
    >
    It IS the classic Plato's Cave error; that particular pernicious bad
    analogy has done amazing philosophical damage through the
    millennia.
    > --
    > Robin Faichney
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