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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Re: freedom and unpredictability
Message-ID: <541@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 14:45:16 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 30 14:45:16 1985
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Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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Keywords: external
Summary: WHICH dictionary?

In article <1123@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>You mean like quoting the dictionary definition of free will?  I've done
>that repeatedly.

I must have missed this.

>I reiterate in case
>you missed it the first time:  "the belief that man's choices ultimately
>are or can be voluntary AND NOT DETERMINED BY EXTERNAL CAUSES" is the
>operative definition (or one of them offering a similar perspective).

Which dictionary was that?  Anyway, a tricky word here is "external".  I
suggest you look that one up, keeping in mind that the question "external
to what" would seem to have the answer "man" or "volition (