PHIL 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Modus Ponens, Freesound, Inductive Reasoning
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If an event is causally determined, then that event must occur (nature of causation. If an event must occur, it is not free (nature of freedom) Therefore, if an event is causally determined, it is not free. (1,2 chain argument) Every event, including human actions, is causally determined (universal event ca. Therefore, no human action is free* metaphysical notion (3,4 modus po. Agent (a) - the person or being doing an action (x) Freedom and getting what you want are 2 different things. Indeterminism/libertarianism - there are probabilistic events at quantum/atomic lev false. No, just because you want t doesn"t mean that it is free. Premise 3 isn"t guaranteed to be true since premise 2. Agent causation - if reasons to explain, but do not cause, an agent"s decisions, the are free. The agent creating the cause does not cause the event. Disagrees with p follows validly from 1 and 2, it must also refute the 2nd premise.
