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. To say that a calculator is "deterministic" means that

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. __________ imagined a supernatural "demon," with unlimited memory, an unlimited ability to calculate, and a complete knowledge of the laws of physics, who, given a complete description of the world at some particular time, could figure out the whole subsequent course of history-- including all human actions.

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. Owing to the belief in deterministic physics during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the solar system was sometimes compared to a(n)

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. According to the text, in contrast to the merely apparent "chance" character of dice rolls or coin flips, some quantum physicists believe __________ is/are a genuinely random process.

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. Which of the following is an aspect of what we have in mind when we say that we have "free will"?

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. Determinism is particularly threatening to the idea that

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. Philosophers who suggested that we have free will even though determinism is true are known as

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. When Hume said that a free person acts "according to the determinations of the will," he meant that a free person's actions are a result of

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. Which condition(s) not obtaining led Hume to believe that the movements of an epileptic person having a seizure aren't free?

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. __________ rejected determinism by stating: "Determinism, in denying that anything else can be in its stead, virtually defines the universe as a place in which what ought to be is impossible," in other words, as an organism whose constitution is afflicted with an incurable taint, an irremediable flaw.”

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. Scientific libertarians think that

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. __________ claimed that we each have a nonphysical, "transcendental" self, that is outside space and time, is ungoverned by the laws of physics, and makes free decisions for which we are morally responsible.

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