@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:the idea of Freewill is such a vague concept
Bullshit!
An agent has free will on any occasion on which that agent makes and enacts a conscious choice from amongst realisable alternatives. The exact meaning of constituent terms in this definition has been explicated, on this site, and for the most part, on this thread.
dalehileman wrote:the apparent deterministic leanings of the physical sciences
1) science is metaphysically neutral
2) determinism is a metaphysical thesis
3) science is the business of generating, a class of, predictions
4) predictions are generated by deterministic models
5) restriction to a species of model has no ontological implications.
dalehileman wrote:I still maintain the entire discussion is a purely semantic issue
Go on then, what's your argument for this ridiculous contention?
Unless you show signs of understanding and taking in the content of my replies to you, I will assume that you're another case of terminal denialism.