Lexicon of Arguments

 

VI 127
Determinism/Quine: we are free to do what we choose. Whether or not our decisions are then in turn determined by underlying causes is out of the question!
These are fictitious attacks on the sentence of the excluded middle. >Excluded Middle/Quine.
Theorem of the excluded middle/divalent logic/Quine: Ignorance of the truth value gets along very well with divalent logic and belongs very well to the business. It is compatible with truth and falsity.
VI 128
Obviously it is not the (ambiguous) sentences themselves that are true or false, but the corresponding statements.
It is incompleteness, not violations of the sentence of the excluded middle.
Completion, however, does not lie in the future, as with the theologians.
Determinism/free will/Quine: determinism has nothing to do with freedom (Hume, Spinoza ditto) - free is the behavior, because it is caused by internal motives - that motives are caused again, has nothing to do with freedom - QuineVsSchopenhauer.
QuineVsPenrose: determinism has been questioned by quantum physics, but this is certainly not a backdoor to free will. >Freedom/Quine.