Lexicon of Arguments

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Pauen I 274
Determinism/Van Inwagen/Pauen: the principle of the causal closure says that only physical explanation may be used. - It is not about a need for certain causal chains.
Only requirement: that for any higher order describable change there is a physically describable change.
Thesis: from full description later states can be derived.
>Initial conditions, >Levels/order, >Levels of description, >Description,
>Causality, >Causal explanation, >Causal dependence, >P. van Inwagen.
Pauen: determinism is more than controversial.
I 275
Determinism/freedom/Moore: determinism does not entitle us to the conclusion that nothing else could have happened.
>Freedom, >Freedom of will, >Actions, cf. >Anomalous monism.
Ambiguity of "can":
a) possible actions
b) physical impossibility.
G.E. Moore: For the purposes of a) it is possible to say "I could have decided otherwise" - ("conditional analysis").
VsMoore: Example he would falsely call psychological coercion "free".
>Coercion.

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