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7 Cards in this Set
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James
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FREE-WILL, he believes that there are two alternative futures in which both are possible. One doesn't become impossible until the other one is real.
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Wood
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DETERMINISM, he believes that free will is absurd and that determinism makes more sense because it is scientifically proven. There are no possibilities, everything is cause and effect.
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Wood's 7 arguments
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Wood answers each of the arguments for freedom based off of mechanism theory of nature. He says that free will is caused by hereditary and environment.
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What is Wood's evidence?
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Wood's evidence for his position is scientific evidence. Nature brings about cause and effects.
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Why does he consider it better than that of his adversary?
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Wood would say that his thought is true because he has science on his side.
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How does James show that argument to be no good?
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James looks at real possibilities. Wood deals with facts and only facts while James say science is limited to facts and future predictable facts.
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James view of truth and how is fits here
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James says that truth comes from what makes the most rational sense
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