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Study Guide: Unit 5

Chapter 6, Section A

1. What is fatalism? Glossary

2. In Buddhism, what kind of gestures are human choices seen as?

3. What is the Buddhist concept of freedom called? What is it a freedom from?

Chapter 6, Section C

1. What is determinism? Glossary

2. What is predestination? 

3. How is determinism different from fatalism and predestination?

4. What is meant by antecedent conditions? Glossary

5. What is meant by sufficient cause? Glossary

6. What was Pierre Simon Laplace’s claim about predicting the future? What would he need to know to be able to do so?

7. What was Baron Paul Henri d’Holbach’s position regarding the existence of free will?

8. What is indeterminism? Glossary

9. What is meant by ‘free will’? Glossary

10. What is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle? Glossary

11. What argument based on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle was advanced by Sir Arthur Edington?

12. What is soft determinism? Glossary

13. What is compatibilism? Glossary