Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!flink 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 Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.541 Posted: Sun Jun 30 14:45:16 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:24:44 EDT References: <325@spar.UUCP> <27500082@ISM780B.UUCP> <1123@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 16 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 (