[lit-ideas] Free for Lunch
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:47:14 EDT
In a message dated 4/1/2011 10:15:23 A.M., donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
In any case, Dworkin's reported points hardly reflect a great mind at work.
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Oddly, he wouldn't think Minds Work. Workers work.
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Oddly, Strawson's point towards free-will is well-proven. "We use
imperatives, and other expressions which only make sense _on condition_ that
ours
is not a deterministic world."
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I have applied the claim cross-specifically.
A dog can obey a command, "Sit" -- but not others (e.g. "Talk"). For this
reason, we deny free will to dogs.
----- America is called 'the land of the freedom'. This is an example used
by Grice,
"free for lunch".
"We can imagine that in Ancient Rome, a slave could ask another -- "Are
you free for lunch?". The implicature being NOT that ours is not a
deterministic world, but other." Or something.
J. L. Speranza
---- for the Swimming-Pool Library
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