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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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The Difference Between Determinism and Indeterminism

The distinction between determinism and indeterminism is best understood as a level specific distinction. For each level of description or level of analysis at which we might think about conceptualize explain and understand the world, we can ask whether the world is deterministic or indeter microscopic. This phenomenon is actually not so unfamiliar even in some branches of the natural sciences such as classical mechanics where systems are redescribed to look like they're deterministically determined.

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