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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Continuity
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Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 10:03:54 EST
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Continuity is useful in thinking about *freedom*, but not about *free will*.
Remember the proposed analogy between free will and language ability?
Granted that there is a continuum between how people use language - I
think that the *ability* to use language is more or less binary 
(forgetting, for a moment, hard cases like Koko the Gorilla). Humans
have the ability and trees don't. Even if it were possible to construct
a freedom continuum between rocks (say) at one end and man at the other --
would it help?  What is being investigated is whether man has the
ability of free will.

Laura Creighton
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