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Isn't this just a tad misogynistic? Especially a female

At last.

I don't think this necessarily follows. You need to remember that Trump's brash and boastful demeanour commanded very little respect whereas it would be the height of disrespect for any foreign leader to draw attention to Biden's obvious frailty.

I understand the honest desire to defend Biden at all costs at this late stage of the presidential race, but this comment is borderline delusional. Whether you agree or not, there is genuine concern among committed anti-Trumpers that Biden's apparent frailty could influence 'undecideds' and...

I think there's an important distinction to be made between saying Biden is an incompetent President and saying he doesn't represent the Dem's best chance to defeat Trump.

This might help: Compatibilism: What's that About?

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You either didn't read or didn't understand my post. The "terms" don't entail anything. Words don't have innate, irrevocable meaning. Meaning is derived from usage.

You state this as though it were fact. It's not. It's just your (and others') dogmatic belief. Word meaning doesn't work like this. Meanings are not determined according to personal preferences. Meanings are determined by usage. Where a word or phrase has more than one common usage, no single...

It does. This is how compatibilist free will is defined. The reason you find this definition unsatisfactory is because you don't understand compatibilism and appear only to be able to think of free will in terms of libertarian free will Until you understand that libertarian and...

I'm not convinced. Quantum indeterminacy has no bearing on compatibilist free will and neither will it change the minds of hard determinists (I don't know of any who would concede free will even if it could be 'proved/demonstrated' that the universe wasn't really deterministic). I think...

Quite possibly true but totally irrelevant to the compatibilist free will debate.

I'm not convinced. I see very little in your posted argumentation that relates in any direct way to the compatibilist/incompatibilist debate from my perspective. Having said that, I have to admit that I find much of what you post quite impenetrable. This isn't intended as a criticism - it's...

I'm pretty sure we view compatibilist free will quite differently. Do you know of any philosophers who defend compatibilist free will in the same way you do? It might help me to understand your approach.

Yes, I know you do. We have very different notions of what is generally understood to be 'compatibilist free will'.

Compatibilist free will is a (subjective) property of some human actions. It's not an objective physical property that can be studied scientifically.

Yes, I'm aware. And I certainly wouldn't disagree.

Yes, I'm pretty sure we fundamentally disagree about the free will question. :)

He certainly doesn't understand compatibilism. His criticisms of compatibilism indisputably confirm this. For me, compatibilist freedom is quite simply freedom from specific morally relevant constraints/influences - the kinds of constraints/influences that we all take into account when...

This has always been my bone of contention with DBT (I've 'discussed' free will with DBT over many years ;) ). Although he never explicitly makes the claim, he does argue (and always has) as though he believes the sense of free will defended by compatibilists is in some way wrongheaded...