PHIL 1110 Lecture 17: Tues Oct 31 Free Will and Determinism
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Aristotle was a philosopher but was involved with many other things. Socrates was killed by the athenians and he feared that he would be coming after him too. Every (declarative) sentence is either true or false** **aristotle - there is an exception for sentences about the future. Logical determinism - the vie logic (i. e. the truth or falsity determined and not fr. The will is a faculty(5 senses, reason, memory, and imagination) of the mind, whose job it is to make decisions. Just because you have a faculty of the will, that doesn"t mean that it is free. Any sentence about the future is true or false. If a sentence about the future is true now, then the event it is about is determined. If a sentence about the future is false now, then the event it is about is determined. All sentences about the future are about events which are determined.
