Title: What is the difference between determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism? - Quora
Headings: What is the difference between determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism?
What is the difference between determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism?
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Content: Bruce Silverstein's answer to Does compatibilism really make sense?, and/or Bruce Silverstein's answer to Is compatibilism a workable idea, and if not, is determinism preferable to libertarianism? ). Quora User
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Updated May 2, 2021 · Author has 563 answers and 320.1K answer views
Peter’s answer is largely correct, but since he asked me to answer this question, I will do so with the intention of providing another version. We can call this the New International Version of the answer. Determinism is a handful of views that say: however the world is is determined by the way the world was previously. There are more refined answers, for example, David Lewis’ version: determinism is the view that given two physically identical possible worlds at time 0, those worlds are also physically identical at time 0+1. Another example is from Peter van Inwagen: determinism is the thesis
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Peter’s answer is largely correct, but since he asked me to answer this question, I will do so with the intention of providing another version.