Title: Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible. : philosophy
Headings: Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible.
Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible.
Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible.
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Content: This doesn't have to be the case for all philosophical issues - Zeno's paradox is clearly not actually a concern to anyone - but perhaps many of them. Continue this thread
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6 points · 6 years ago
| there is literally no way they can coherently be held simultaneously. If all the definitions of the terms stay consistent from view to view. " David went to the store" and "David didn't go to the store" can be coherently believed simultaneously if the David from one statement is not the same referent as the David from the other. This is what I think is happening with the compatibilist/incompatibilist notions of free will. | I suspect what you're getting at here...compatibilism is the view that "free will A" is compatible with determinism, and incompatibilism is the view that "free will B" is not. This is exactly what I believe, yes. | undoubtedly thanks to Mr. Harris
I've not read anything Harris has to say about free will. If our views are similar it is coincidental. | The basic error here is in thinking that the free will debate is simply about stipulating some definition of how our will actually works and what freedom actually means
I'm not seeing the error.