Compatibilism answers a question nobody was asking
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Free willAnalyticModern EuropeanDavid HumeEpictetus#compatibilism#could-have-done-otherwise#determinism#liberty
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A random string and a sonnet can carry the same information? Then what is Shannon measuring?
My bus kneels for wheelchairs. What is the difference between an impairment and a disability?
If Buddhism says there is no self, what exactly gets reborn?
How can a thought move an arm if physics already explains every movement?
If a stopped clock happens to show the right time, why don’t I know the time?
I never agreed to obey the state. Why do I owe it anything?
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