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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: DVM's request for definitions
Keywords: philosophy, free will
Message-ID: <475@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 May 88 21:05:27 GMT
References: <29049@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <894@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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In article <894@maize.engin.umich.edu> brian@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brian Holtz) writes:
>If you accept definition (1) (as I do), then the only alternative to 
>determinism is dualism, which I don't see too many people defending.

Dualism wouldn't necessarily give free will: it would just transfer
the question to the spiritual.  Perhaps that is just as deterministic
as the material.