PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Determinism, Indeterminism
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Prophetic dreams- problems: dif cult to explain how/why some dreams are prophetic, dif cult to know whether some dreams are prophetic as it could just be a coincidence. Metaphysical arguments: belief in god, fate and nature supports belief in divination. Prophesy and determinism: when a causes b, it produces sign f. Diviners are skilled at recognizing sings: the problems with this view, it only shows that prophesy is possible, cicero: it robs prophesy of its value. Prophesy and indeterminism: prophesy shows what would happen if person doesn"t choose otherwise, are there problems, not everyone agrees, destroys quintus" argument. Prophesy and god: p. 1 if there are gods and they don"t give signs of future, then a, they do not love. Human beings; or b -> they don"t know the future; or c -> they think there is no advantage to human beings to know future; or d-> they think its undigni ed to give.
