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Many free will proponents believe conflicting doctrines about the will.
What i have often encountered is the following:
1. Freedom means our choices are not predetermined by an outside force.
2, our choices are indeterminate.
3. For every choice we “could have” chosen differently in the same circumstance.
4. Our choices are non arbitrary.
These beliefs are incompatible logically.
If a choice could have been different, that logically,means there is no reason that it wasn’t different, it just happened to go that way.
If we could replay that moment of choice (reverse time) , the person might chose differently under the exact same preconditions. And there would be no reason for the different outcomes. That reveals an unmistsksble randomn/arbitrary element in the mix.
And of course, the old objection that if God knows the future, then our choices can only be what he knows they will be, is just another line of proof of the incoherency of free will doctrine. It is illogical and contradictory.
What i have often encountered is the following:
1. Freedom means our choices are not predetermined by an outside force.
2, our choices are indeterminate.
3. For every choice we “could have” chosen differently in the same circumstance.
4. Our choices are non arbitrary.
These beliefs are incompatible logically.
If a choice could have been different, that logically,means there is no reason that it wasn’t different, it just happened to go that way.
If we could replay that moment of choice (reverse time) , the person might chose differently under the exact same preconditions. And there would be no reason for the different outcomes. That reveals an unmistsksble randomn/arbitrary element in the mix.
And of course, the old objection that if God knows the future, then our choices can only be what he knows they will be, is just another line of proof of the incoherency of free will doctrine. It is illogical and contradictory.