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Comparing Two Theories Of Deteminism And Indeterminism

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Determinism and Indeterminism After reading about the two theories, I believe that neither one really supports free will. Determinism states that everything we do and everything we think is caused by circumstances beyond our control. All of our thoughts and emotions are there in our mind already so we do not have the choice to make our own decisions. For example, if we go to buy a house, we may think that we picked it out but really it was picked out for us. According to indeterminism that at least some of our decisions are ours and not determined for us. Prior conditioning can sometimes be overridden by our own thinking. As per the example above maybe we will pick the blue house even though we are supposed to pick the blue house. Neither

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