Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Free will Message-ID: <562@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:11:08 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.562 Posted: Mon Aug 5 13:11:08 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 01:34:09 EDT Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 7 I have a question regarding the REA (interpretation?/definition?) of free will. Consider the case where you are robbed at gunpoint. Is handing over your money an act of free will? I think that by the conventional use of the word the answer is quite definitely no; but I see no way to get that answer by an REA definition. What is our REA advocate's position regarding this situation?