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View submission: Which side shoulders the burden of proof?
There is no consensus on the definition of free will.
The SEP says that most people who argue honestly and with some sense of authority think it it the ability to do otherwise so If I believe I need to use the can and I'm out in people, it seems I can chose whether to go into the men's or the women's rest room
There is consensus within the framework of one definition.
The compatibilists and the determinists share the same definition for determinism but do they have a consensus about the ability to do otherwise? I don't know because the compatibilist don't seem to like to think about the ability to do otherwise and seem to get evasive if I try to pin them down. I'm not talking about free will here because you already said there is no consensus. I'm just talking about a compatibilist and what he thinks about the ability to do otherwise. I'd put up a poll but I don't think it will yield any results that in the long term will be useful to the sub.
There's nothing here!