If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there b…

Mark Helprin
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If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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