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It is one of the few things you have posted on this thread that I both understand and truly appreciate. 😂 I am referring to your correction of my poor grammar, and not your referring to yourself as a grammar Nazi.

You are 100% correct. Thank you for that explanation. It is much appreciated. And I do not perceived your point to be pedantic in the least.

My bad on dropping a word. Not sure how that happened. It was not intentional. I thought I read you were an editor. If not, I retract the modifier. As for the "pedantry" -- I suggest that you put down the magnifying glass and pick up the mirror. The problem is not that I am pedantic. It...

Exactly -- you nailed it, and the existence of free will is just one of the many current theories we might expect to be strictly false. The point is that nobody truly knows. Yet, you and others on this board, consistently post as if you know, for a fact, that your paradigm is true and the...

I feel like singing Breakfast at Tiffany's. For those who don't get the pop reference, are the pertinent lyrics are quoted below. It is a great song if you haven't heard it.

As an editor, I am confident that you know that the following two statements are materially different: 1. "If you could rewind the history of the universe to the start and replay it, you would get the same result."\ and 2. "to best of our current knowledge, if we could rewind the universe...

And you know this to a certainty -- how? Perhaps I am mistaken, but it is my understanding that the scientific method requires empirical proof as a foundational basis for accepting the validity or truth of a hypothesis and also that a hypothesis that is not falsifiable is not scientific. In...

Query: Are you suggesting that you subscribe to only one theory of "time"? If so, can you please point me to a source where I can read of that single theory that is superior to all others? If you are not saying that, are you able to state how many theories of time you accept as possibilities...

Perhaps, I am just a luddite, but I view the stuff of which you speak to be as fantastical and self-contradictory as you view the paradigm I have posited. The main difference between us is that I view all such paradigms as possible and do not accept the reality of any of them, and you seem to...

Science and Physics are based on all sorts of paradoxes and/or premises that are unprovable and non-falsifiable. Is the universe infinite or finite? If finite, what is beyond its limits? If infinite, how can that be? Did the universe always exist or was it caused by something? If it was...

Since I view you to be an intelligent person, I am assuming there is some logic underlying the statements in your last post (quoted above). I am, however, unable to understand what you are saying to even begin to assess whether it makes sense to me. I tend to believe I am a relatively...

Based on your explanation of last-thursdayism, I accept it as a theoretical possibility. I would not wager in it being factually correct, I would not act as if it were correct (as best I am able to control my actions), and accepting it as true would not alter the way I live my life (though it...

Your wiki source is hardly authoritative, and the quoted sentence identifies as an on-line vanity publication created and populated by Daniel Podgorski, who self-identifies as "a Californian author, essayist, researcher, and web developer. On The Gemsbok, he provides art analysis (on literature...

Do you claim the statement above to be a universal truth, incapable of exception -- even theoretically?

I have no idea what last-thirsdayism is. If you were to define it for me, I could attempt to answer your question. I also have no idea what the final paragraph of your comment means. Perhaps you can expound.

I used precisely the same words twice to avoid being accused of redefining the point with which you had expressed agreement. As I now understand your position, it is simply that Free Will does exist -- full stop. I still don't know what you mean by that other than that it is something you...

I totally get it. Liberum arbitrium sentis, ergo liberum arbitrium habes. Moreover, because your feelings necessarily prove what you feel is real, there is no possibility that you lack free will so long as you continue to feel as if you have it. In essence, although I doubt you will...

Then you are engaging on a debate to define only half of the two things claimed to be compatible with one another. Without defining both sides of the equation, and then explained how they are compatible with one another there is no debate about the logical coherence of compatibilism. There is...

Perhaps, you simply answered my prior question too quickly or too casually. The words "anything else that might be true of the universe" were a part of the question I asked in the post to which you replied "Yes!!" This is shown in the quoted exchange above. There was no sleight of hand or...

I do not see the two claims as being mutually exclusive. Rather, I see them as being complimentary. They also do not address the question of what is meant by the word "Determinism" -- which you elsewhere seem to contend to be irrelevant. Unless Compatibilist free will is defined as "that...