2/ Define 'voluntary'. Define 'compelled'. Explain why actions must be crisply one or the other, but not shades of both. Explain the free body diagram of forces and objects - are we looking at a single action in a 1 ms time slice, or embedded in a history of cause and effect?"
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13/ I object strongly to the word "cheat". Rigor is a tool that constructs things crisply ATOP the axioms. The fact that when we scan down the 20 story office building we find a basement, a sub basement, and then a massive set of pilings doesn't >> https://twitter.com/DM_Berger/status/1166693868584296448 …
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14/ invalidate the rigor with which the steel I beams have been placed, merely because "it rests on pilings at the bottom". OF COURSE it rests on pilings. ...I just want to make sure that it DOES rest on them, and not on air !
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15/ I disliked "cheat" in the previous tweet and I dislike "if you're honest with yourself". There's no need to lard the discussion with moral weight, and I find it correlates with "more heat than light" conversations. https://twitter.com/DM_Berger/status/1166694759261462529 …
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16/ And, screw it, I'm not up for a "more heat than light" conversation, so I'm out.
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