The problem is that many answers show that most moderns do not understand the distiction between philosophy and physical science. They do not understand phys. science's limits. Physical science can't solve the problems of free will and determinism. Skinner makes gratuitious assertions, and what is gratuitously asserted, may be gratuitiously denied.
The view being attacked in this piece is epiphenomenalism, the position that experience is an effect but never a cause. It's a view that I, a determinist, don't hold.
So what's the connection to determinism? Why is this "Margie Refutes Determinism" and not "Margie Argues The Implausibility Of Epiphenomenalism"? Do you have some reason to believe that determinism requires it?
it is actually "argumentum ad absurdum" (If my Latin spelling is right. Skinner, and many others, don't know that their theory leads to nonsense, as said above. Also.. Thanks for the comments.
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MSlapik 4 years ago
The problem is that many answers show that most moderns do not understand the distiction between philosophy and physical science. They do not understand phys. science's limits. Physical science can't solve the problems of free will and determinism. Skinner makes gratuitious assertions, and what is gratuitously asserted, may be gratuitiously denied.
dawgie102 4 years ago
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MSlapik 4 years ago
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MSlapik 4 years ago
The view being attacked in this piece is epiphenomenalism, the position that experience is an effect but never a cause. It's a view that I, a determinist, don't hold.
So what's the connection to determinism? Why is this "Margie Refutes Determinism" and not "Margie Argues The Implausibility Of Epiphenomenalism"? Do you have some reason to believe that determinism requires it?
AtSwimTwoBricks 4 years ago 2
Fallacious reasoning; see my response to this argument in 'char refutes determinism'.
enclave2k1 4 years ago
it is actually "argumentum ad absurdum" (If my Latin spelling is right. Skinner, and many others, don't know that their theory leads to nonsense, as said above. Also.. Thanks for the comments.
dawgie102 4 years ago
I listened, and it was clear.
dawgie102 4 years ago
Huh?
burnvictim77 4 years ago