Does anyone know why Widerker (2002, 316) calls the following assumption "IVD"?
"If determinism is true, then no agent could have avoided acting as he did ..."
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A google snippet shows this quote: //(The incompatibility of avoidability with determinism, IVD)//. Could it be the German translation (is Widerker German) -- Inkompatibilität der Vermeidbarkeit und Determinismus?
Posted by: Mark Young | 01/11/2012 at 10:21 PM
Thanks Mark!
Posted by: Joe Campbell | 01/12/2012 at 02:57 AM