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An IRREFUTABLE refutation of Hard-Incompatibilism.

**The Law of the Excluded Middle actually refutes Hard Incompatibilism!** Consider the following:

"A is either B, or not B".

If the above statement is true, then the following statement is true:

"Free Will is either Determined, or Not Determined".

If Free Will is Determined then by definition Free Will is compatible with Determinism. If Free Will is Not Determined then by definition Free Will is compatible with Indeterminism. You simply cannot say "A is neither B nor Not B", because "A is either B or Not B".

Sanity Check: Does this work with anything? Lets use "Banana" as an example.

"Bananas are either Determined, or Not Determined" => Yep, A banana is either governed by strict deterministic laws of physics, or not.

"Free Will is either a Banana, or Not a Banana" => Yep, we can safely say its not a Banana.

Seems like the basic Law of Excluded Middle refutes Hard Incompatibilism. You cant say its neither determined nor not determined. You can say its neither determined nor random, but ONLY if "random" means something different than "not determined", and id be curious to know what specific set of conditions that would entail.


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