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torekp comments on My summary of Eliezer's position on free will - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: torekp 01 March 2012 03:25:19AM *  2 points [-]

to pretend that we could choose different things

On the above (emphasis added) - and independent of anything I've seen from EY - beware the modal scope fallacy. It leads to unsound rejections of "could" and "ability" statements.