@Night Ripper,
Night Ripper;144770 wrote:That's all you have to say? Not going to say anything about your faith claim? I guess I rebutted it then.
Physical necessity isn't testable. There's no experiment that could be performed that could verify the existence of physical necessity.
Without the idea of physical necessity, what would happen to predictions?
Regularity only works up to a point in making a prediction.
We hesitate to make any predictions about a giant gold ball.
We don't hesitate about the uranium one.
The bedrock of this confidence is belief that our knowledge and logic together can tell us what can't happen.
This relates directly to the issue of freedom of the will. Will is activated only when one is contemplating something that's been deemed possible.
If you think something's impossible, then for you it is. You won't even try to do it.... generally speaking. There has to be a limit on what's possible though. Without that limit, meaning would be absent. As Goshisdead pointed out: freedom of the will is part of our perception. We don't know what the world would be like without it, because we can't conceive of that.