Ep. 57: Hume Was Wrong
Young Heretics
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Free Will Is Not a One Off, Right?
We have this intuition, not only that this particular experience makes sense, but that we can extrapolate that is, we can take that experience and apply it outward. That's just human behaviour also, because human nature dictates that people behave in certain ways. So he basically destroys the idea of free will using this argument. He says, as long as we will rashly suppose that we have some farther idea of necessity and causation in the operations of external objects, at the same time that we can find nothing farther in the voluntary actions of the mind. There is no possibility of bringing the quest to any determinate issue. While we proceed upon so erroneous a supposition, the only method of unde
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