J.J.C. Smart’s Explanation for an Accurate Account of Descriptive Intermediate Failure to Properly Distinguish Something between Determinism and Pure Chance. In the essay “Free Will, Praise and Blame” included in Free Will, J.J.C Smart presents the thesis that metaphysical freedom is self-contradictory. As part of this claim, Smart forwards the analogies of the aluminium and the china plates (Smart 67). Having the knowledge of physical properties, the likelihood of a plate made of aluminium breaking when dropped is “not an open possibility” (Smart 66). Correspondingly, having knowledge of the china plates properties; there are factors of chance such as, the height it is dropped from, the surface it is dropped on, etc. That make the china
