Timeline for According to Existentialism, is the statement "I don't have a choice" a choice?
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| Nov 2, 2015 at 20:58 | comment | added | user9166 | @CortAmmon From some kind of positivist point of view, that should be what they mean. But in reality, very few people mean that, when they say this. They usually mean that the effect upon them of acting otherwise would be too negative -- that all choices are foreclosed by forces they dare not oppose. The counterargument just means that measure of the effect is subjective and often wrong. Not accepting the bias implicit in overestimating the cost to oneself is the "bad faith". | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 20:03 | answer | added | Guill | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 18:42 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 18:16 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I'd have to reword your question for this to be an answer, but: It is common English usage to say "I don't have a choice" when what is actually meant is "None of the choices I can make will have an empirically observable effect on the outcome." The contrary argument, leading to "You always have a choice" stems from the argument that, while others may be only looking at things you cannot control, the most important things to "yourself" are always under your control (which, itself leads to some interesting circular patterns in the logic) | |
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 17:12 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 16:34 | history | reopened |
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 14:26 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | I voted to re-open. | |
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 13:58 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | I think the question just seemed unclear because of the language issues. I have edited for clarity (following JohnAm's lead) and nominated for reopening. | |
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 4:34 | history | edited | Vanessa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 4:24 | comment | added | James Kingsbery | Welcome to Philosophy.SE! There are lots of questions here about free-will and determinism: can you make your question more specific about what you're trying to understand? | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 3:39 | history | edited | Vanessa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 3:14 | history | asked | Vanessa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |