Compatibilist

Quick meaning: Compatibilist is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.

Meaning

(philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) A supporter of compatibilism.

Example Sentences

Such a reply is not, however, in the spirit of the compatibilist strategy of interest here.

Moreover, suggestions that compatibilists can refute hard determinism on non-semantic grounds are misguided, building more into hard determinism than an adherent of this view needs to accept.

To which the compatibilists replied, This is still totally artificial—choosing when to leap into an abyss or whether to turn left or right in a driving simulator tells us nothing about our free will in choosing between, say, becoming a nudist versus a Buddhist, or becoming an algologist versus an allergologist.

Word Forms

• compatibilists

Antonyms for compatibilist

Common opposites include incompatibilist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coherentist, compossible, compatible, cofunctional, confirmational, concordist.

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