Jargon

 

The free will topic is infested with a whole bunch of philosophical jargon words. No wonder the average layperson tends to avoid the topic. The terms, however, are nothing to be frightened of. They aren’t really difficult at all. Some philosophers, however, like to pull as much as they can out of jargon words, and even worse, define jargon words using a bunch of other jargon words. Simple, however, is almost always better. Lofty sounding words may make someone seem intelligent, and also scare people away from criticism, but it’s usually a smoke and mirrors act. That being said, sometimes jargon words are used to unpack a lot of information in which other words are insufficient for. Sometimes they are necessary.

I’m creating this “terms” section to give people a brief overview of each of the most widely used or important terms for the topic of “free will”. There is more to know about these words, but this is all you really need at base level. You may want to bookmark this resource!

The below words are coming soon!

Regarding Events

Determinism

Indeterminism

Probabilism

Causal

Acausal

Random

Free Will Positions

Compatibilism

Incompatibilism

Libertarianism

Hard Determinism

Hard Incompatibilism

Other Words You May Hear

Temporal

Spacial

Epistemology

Ontology