>> You're in a fog, or maybe a hazy shade of winter, since to
>> call freedom "the ability to do as one wills" is clear and
>> understandable regardless how many people are living in Toronto
>> these days.

> so, one of those clear and distinct ideas that cannot be doubted of,
> huh?

> so much for one kind of "necesssity" refusing to absent itself...
> not to mention the body and its incessant demand for food and toilet
> paper, the absence of which body would somewhat put the kibosh on that
> "will"... or the simple fact of there being no circumstance that is
> circumstance-free or that does not apply a pressure...
> and being as the six billion plus just will not go away, the absence of
> "constraint in choice or action" seems equally unlikely to present
> itself...
> which leaves "coercion", absence thereof... so which of the six
> billion do we imagine has ever found itself unforced "by imposed
> stricture, restriction or limitation"? single mom dies at the instant of
> birth on a desert island and Huxleyan birds drop round and feed the wild
> child rather than chanting "here and now, boys, here and now"?...
> the clarity of such a definition is clearly an illusion...

> to every horizon... having never really been able to rise above a
> strictly monist materalism, i've never felt any temptation or compulsion
> to reconcile that which "exist[s] as a mental image or in fancy or