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Free will and "influences"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 1:04pm.

"free of any influence. Then, he is exercising his free will."  That may be asking too much.  No one is ever "free of any influence."  The question is instead, it seems to me, whether one is able to act in ways that are not "determined" by outside "influences,"ie whether one can add something of one's own to the mix.  With "influences" being valuable starting points. 

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