Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Bridgman , Percy Williams (1936), The nature of physical theory, Retrieved on 2012-01-28
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    28 JAN 2012

     Questions About Freedom of Will are Meaningless

    Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy...
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    If you cannot test something objectively, it is a meaningless question.

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