a train on a fixed set of rails because the train is unable to move
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who is philosophical determinism associated with?
john locke
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what is causation
the idea that all events that take place only do so due to past causes
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what did Locke come to?
the past was unchangeable and fixed and therefore the future must also be unchangeable and fixed.
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how did William James describe this phenomenon?
"iron block universe"- like an iron block, events in the universe are fixed and cannot be changed.
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what did locke eventually conclude?
"free will is an illusion"- what he meant by this was that human belief in free will was concocted and thus believed in something that did not exist.
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what did Locke say about the illusion of freewill.
it is due to the ignorance and the lack of understanding of causation.
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what was Locke's analogy?
he states that a man wakes up in a room that unknown to him is locked from the outside. his ignorance of the locked door lead him to illusion that he has free will.
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