PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Material Monism, Monism, Incompatibilism
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Implicit knowledge: we learn it without paying attention to the fact that you know it (like know how)--you pick it up without being aware of it. Example: 2 is implicit from 1+1 if and only if you could deduce 2 from 1+1. Freedom of action and universal determinism are not compatible with one. We discussed : universal determinism : every material event has a prior sufficient material condition. Not the same concept as freedom of the will) (121) (123) freedom of action: another (this is . Then (y). (this second thesis is a dispositional, conditional statement: if (x) is the case, . Raises radical skepticism and doubts everything that can possibly be doubted. Look at your whole belief system: of all those beliefs is there anything i can hold on to that can"t be doubted? looks like even math can be doubted. But even here there are some things that still seem to be true: size, quantity, shape, etc.
