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Comment author: dunno 01 April 2014 10:38:16AM 2 points [-]

Does compatibilism recognize a difference between "we have free will" and "we have a will"?

Comment author: Alejandro1 01 April 2014 04:01:30PM 0 points [-]

This is mostly a semantical question, as different compatibilist philosophers might use the words "having a will" to mean different things. (They are not words with a fixed technical meaning in philosophy). Some may think "having a will" is synonymous with "having free will", while others might think that e.g. if you a mind-controlled without knowing it you might "have a will" (a subjective sense of willing to do things) while not satisfying the conditions for compatibilist free will.