Lesson test: What determinism claims

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What determinism claims

1.[2p]
Which statement is determinism, as the lesson defines it?

The complete state of the world at one time, plus the laws, entails its state at every other time

Correct

Whatever will happen will happen, whatever anyone does

The answer is: The complete state of the world at one time, plus the laws, entails its state at every other time

Every event has a cause

The answer is: The complete state of the world at one time, plus the laws, entails its state at every other time

A powerful enough computer could predict any human action

The answer is: The complete state of the world at one time, plus the laws, entails its state at every other time

2.[2p]
Determinism fixes the past as tightly as it fixes the future.

True

Correct

False

The answer is: True

3.[3p]
Match each claim to what it actually is.

The outcome will happen whatever you do
No computer could forecast the weather beyond two weeks
Every event has a cause
The laws force you to act as you do

a limit on predictability
universal causation
fatalism
the compulsion picture

Show the answer

The outcome will happen whatever you do: fatalism No computer could forecast the weather beyond two weeks: a limit on predictability Every event has a cause: universal causation The laws force you to act as you do: the compulsion picture

4.[3p]
Why does the Idle Argument fail against a determinist?

Determinism makes your action one of the causes of the outcome rather than irrelevant to it

Correct

Determinism denies that outcomes are fixed at all

The answer is: Determinism makes your action one of the causes of the outcome rather than irrelevant to it

The argument assumes indeterminism, which determinism rejects

The answer is: Determinism makes your action one of the causes of the outcome rather than irrelevant to it

Recovery from illness is a chance event, so no argument applies

The answer is: Determinism makes your action one of the causes of the outcome rather than irrelevant to it

5.[2p]
In what year did Lorenz publish "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow"?

CorrectNot quite: 1963

6.[3p]
What does sensitive dependence on initial conditions show about determinism?

A system can be fully deterministic and still unpredictable beyond a horizon

Correct

Deterministic systems are the only predictable ones

The answer is: A system can be fully deterministic and still unpredictable beyond a horizon

Small errors in measurement mean the laws themselves are only approximate

The answer is: A system can be fully deterministic and still unpredictable beyond a horizon

Chaotic systems are undetermined

The answer is: A system can be fully deterministic and still unpredictable beyond a horizon

7.[3p]
Which of these are true of the thesis of determinism as stated?

Select all that apply

It says nothing about agents, choices or compulsion

Correct

It concerns the complete state of the world, not isolated subsystems

Correct

It is a claim about the world rather than about what anyone can know

Correct

It implies that deliberation makes no difference to what happens

The answer is: It says nothing about agents, choices or compulsion, It concerns the complete state of the world, not isolated subsystems, It is a claim about the world rather than about what anyone can know

8.[2p]
What did Honderich call the view that the world is deterministic except for chance at the smallest scale? Two words.

CorrectNot quite: near-determinism

9.[3p]
Why does adding quantum chance to the picture not by itself rescue free will?

The chances are still fixed by conditions you did not control, and randomness is not control

Correct

Quantum effects are too small to reach the brain

The answer is: The chances are still fixed by conditions you did not control, and randomness is not control

Chance events have no causes, so they cannot be actions

The answer is: The chances are still fixed by conditions you did not control, and randomness is not control

Determinism would still be true of large objects

The answer is: The chances are still fixed by conditions you did not control, and randomness is not control

1.[2p] Which statement is determinism, as the lesson defines it?

2.[2p] Determinism fixes the past as tightly as it fixes the future.

3.[3p] Match each claim to what it actually is.

4.[3p] Why does the Idle Argument fail against a determinist?

5.[2p] In what year did Lorenz publish "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow"?

6.[3p] What does sensitive dependence on initial conditions show about determinism?

7.[3p] Which of these are true of the thesis of determinism as stated?

8.[2p] What did Honderich call the view that the world is deterministic except for chance at the smallest scale? Two words.

9.[3p] Why does adding quantum chance to the picture not by itself rescue free will?

1.[2p]
Which statement is determinism, as the lesson defines it?

2.[2p]
Determinism fixes the past as tightly as it fixes the future.

3.[3p]
Match each claim to what it actually is.

4.[3p]
Why does the Idle Argument fail against a determinist?

5.[2p]
In what year did Lorenz publish "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow"?

6.[3p]
What does sensitive dependence on initial conditions show about determinism?

7.[3p]
Which of these are true of the thesis of determinism as stated?

8.[2p]
What did Honderich call the view that the world is deterministic except for chance at the smallest scale? Two words.

9.[3p]
Why does adding quantum chance to the picture not by itself rescue free will?