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January 23, 2009, Philosophy

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Do People of all Cultures Believe in Free Will?

By Joshua Knobe on January 23, 2009 in Experiments in Philosophy

Imagine a universe in which everything that happens is completely caused by whatever happened before.  So the things that happened at the very beginning of the universe caused the things that happened next, which caused the things that happened after that... Read More

Logic

Submitted by Steve Loir on January 25, 2009 - 2:21pm.

There are a number of inconsistencies in the article, some completely unacknowledged assumptions and some illogical statements.

Some of the problems are acknowledged, for example all the subjects are university students. But the others are not.

But of interest all the same.

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