Re: Flourishing

["Alan G. Isaac" <AISAAC@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted,

I do not see how you can move so quickly to _logical_ conflicts.
On what basis do you claim that a materialist and determinist
explanation of the experience of choosing is impossible, or that
ordinary language would not refer to "choice" in this situation?
(I am not taking that metaphysical position; I'm just arguing
it doesn't contain a _logical_ contradiction.)

--Alan G. Isaac

On Sun, 20 Nov 1994 09:54:10 -0700 Ted Winslow said to Herb Gintis:
>If you re-examine what I said, you'll see it was "preferences" rather
>than "choice" that I was taking you as treating as the strictly
>determined product of genes and environment.  By definition, choice
>cannot be such a product.   (You, however, seem to suggest that it
>could be.   Apart from the logical impossibility of explaining choice in
>this way, if the premise of the theory you envisage was true, there
>would be no "we" to develop it since there would be no entities able
>to arrive at their beliefs through rational choice.)