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From: baba@flairvax.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: modreef no seilper - incomprehensible
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 22:13:48 EST
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>			Whatever else "determinism" requires, it surely
>requires that I *couldn't* behave other than I do.  All that predictability
>needs, however, is that it be true that I *won't* behave in ways other than
>I have on relevantly similar occasions.  For that, it's enough that I be a
>creature of habit.
                                 --Jay Rosenberg

You know, I sort of thought that "accurately" was too weak a modifier for
"predict" in the sense I was using it.  

The question then becomes: What is the difference between an event that
certainly *will* not happen and an event that certainly *can* not happen?

				Zekelessness of meaning,
							Baba