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... Even philosophers who don’t found their theories upon empiricism argue that a free will is defined by ones intent; if an action is intended, and then done, it was of our own free will. Are we then, truly free, or simply a product of the principles of our identity? ... If we then deny the implication of the first question, and hold that we are truly free, we must begin to wonder how free, and ask, can a free will exist in the presence of conditioning? ...
The innate flaw of scientific determinism is that just because an action can be predicted, its assumed that it was not a free act. ... And if this is so, it cannot be the case that what distinguishes actions freely chosen from those which are not free is that the latter are determined by causes while the former are not" (Stace 219).
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