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Flew’s Moving Claims

by Roger Squires

In Philosophy Now (Issue no 1, 1991) Antony Flew “goes with the grain of English usage” in distinguishing between movings, “which can be initiated and quashed at will”, and mere motions. That is surely right. But two claims he appears to make about the distinction are questionable. One, that it is (or essentially involves) a difference in the mover’s experience, like the difference between an ache and an itch, or one colour and another. Two, that if there are movings at all, the thesis of ‘universal, necessitating determinism’ must be false.

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