Diana Manister wrote:
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> Dear Nancy,
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> Many philosophers have debated whether free will exists or not.

Yes. But why do you have difficulty in acknowledging, implicitly or
explicitly, that "many philosophers" have _and still are_ and will be
still 10 20 100 years from now debating the propositions you toss out as
"settled by postmodernism." It's a big complicated world -- and we don't
know yet the first thing about it -- whether it is a universeor a
multiverse. Over a century ago Engels pointed out that oly at some
indefinite point in the future will we know whether the world is a unity
or not, whether human knowlede can be complete or not, and so on. It
sets people's teeth on edge when someone issues pronuncments as tough
everything has been settled.

Carrol