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From: dmm@calmasd.UUCP (David M. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: free choice as rational evaluation and action
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 11:24:12 EDT
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Perhaps the "Mat Making" chapter of Melville's Moby Dick might be
of interest to this discussion.  In it, he provides a very nice image
of the interdependence of Will, Destiny, and Chance.  Melville
being Melville, Chance gets the final sounding blow, but that is not
critical to his point, which is that the existence of any one of these
three factors does not exclude the other two - indeed (though I am
suspect of the Universal Quantifier) the situation in which all three
are not present seems quite rare.