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Originally Posted by peacegirl
If he is wrong, let every philosopher who believes in determinism be accused of being wrong.
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Their ideas regarding exactly what determinism is and what it entails may be very different than Lessans. Just because they are determinists, doesn't mean they will agree with Lessans at all.
Additionally, Lessans didn't stop at determinism- he made very strong claims about conscience but offered nothing to support those claims, as well as made strong claims about biology and physics with his efferent vision thing for which he had zero evidential support. Getting someone to agree that determinism is true is not even remotely the battle you face....there are plenty of determinists out there. Can you get them from that point to the point of agreeing that there exists some "germinal substance" that allows us to live again and again even though that is not reincarnation?