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Episode 13: Libertarianism, Part 3 (Non-Causal) with David Palmer

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Is the Tlogical Explanation Something That's Not Causal?

According to the non causalist, these sort of tel logical explanations, that i did the thing in order to achieve a certain goal, rather than to achieve a different goal, those are not causal in character. The idea of an uncaused action is just hard to wrap your head around,. A, it's hard tomake sense of it almost seems impossible. And we don't tend to think anything in the world operates like that. I mean, there's that old adit: "Everything happens for a reason" But if actions were uncalculable they would just hote happen at any time. They seem incompatible with how we understand the rest of the world. Why does

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