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Free will means real novelty: the future may not simply repeat the past
Drawn from what William James said
What William James actually said
- William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
Free-will pragmatically means NOVELTIES IN THE WORLD, the right to expect that in its deepest elements as well as in its surface phenomena, the future may not identically repeat and imitate the past.
Where this was said
↗Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)gutenberg.org
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