Freedom and Necessity

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Freedom and Necessity

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free will and moral responsibility
Contemporary compatibilism
…have done otherwise? In “Freedom and Necessity” (1946), A.J. Ayer (1910–89) maintained that “to say that I could have acted otherwise is to say that I should have acted otherwise if I had so chosen.” The ability to do otherwise means only that if the past had been different,…
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…have done otherwise? In “Freedom and Necessity” (1946), A.J. Ayer (1910–89) maintained that “to say that I could have acted otherwise is to say that I should have acted otherwise if I had so chosen.” The ability to do otherwise means only that if the past had been different,…
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