Posted: Oct 06, 2017 5:24 pm
scott1328 wrote:
Perhaps you have it backwards. Maybe Free Will is a conclusion and not a premise.
I agree that free will is a conclusion not a premise. That's a fair way to put it. We don't act by exercising free will, we weigh our actions by our ability to identify causes of that action/ If we can't spot why we did it we tend to call it free will.
But that's not the usual definition that supposes that will, intentional thought, drives our actions. That we could do otherwise if only we think to try doing otherwise.