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Citation Information for “Free Will and Determinism”



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“ In the mind there is no absolute or free will, but the mind is determined to this or that volition by a cause, which is also determined by another cause, and this again by another, and so on ad infinitum.”

Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order & etc. trans. W.H. White (London: Trüner, 1883), 94.



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