Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> writes on 2 December 2002 at 21:41:26 -0500 > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:01, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > > > Which brings me to a variant of that argument, called Sipfle's Wager > > (after prof. David Sipfle of Carleton). It's the same basic argument, > > applied to free will. > > > > Breaks down to three cases: > ^^^^^ > > > > > 1. Free will exists, and you choose to believe otherwise. > > > > 2. Free will does not exist, and you're predestined to believe in > > free will. > > > > 3. Free will exists, and you choose to believe in free will. > > > > 4. Free will does not exist, and you predestined to not believe in > > free will. > > Oh.. looky, we get a fourth case for free! :) 2 and 4 I originally listed combined, and didn't get back to clean up the number. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info