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Determinism can be neither true nor false

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Published by socrates, October 5, 2006, 8:21 pm GMT
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Type: Deductive  
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1) PREMISE:   
The only claims about public reality which can be considered true or false are those which can in principle be submitted for experimental evaluation.

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2) PREMISE:   
Determinism claims that all events in the universe are controlled by physical laws.

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3) PREMISE:   
No matter what the outcome of any experiment, a determinist can claim that it was determined.

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4) FROM 1,2 AND 3 IT FOLLOWS THAT:   
There is no experiment which can prove the truth of determinism.

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5) FROM 4 IT FOLLOWS THAT:   
Determinism can be neither true nor false.

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6) FROM 5 IT FOLLOWS THAT:   
Determinism is an axiom of scientific thought, and not a fact, therefore neither an experimentally testable statement nor capable of being true or false.

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