PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Billiard Ball, Compatibilism, Determinism
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A: discovers a planet in which universal determinism does not hold, returns from a journey to report on a country in which there is no avarice, gets lost while visiting charing cross. We said that free will requires that you . Hume: x could have done otherwise" just means; Had x chosen to do otherwise, x would have done otherwise". This is known as the conditional analysis of freedom . X pulled the trigger of his own free will". X pulled the trigger and x could have done otherwise". X pulled the trigger, and had x chosen to do otherwise, then x would have done otherwise. ". Had the billiard ball been hit differently, it would have gone into a different pocket. with. Had i chosen to do otherwise than i did, i would have done otherwise. Both propositions can be true in a wholly deterministic world.
