__________ imagined a supernatural "demon," with unlimited memory, an unlimited ability to calculate, and a complete knowledge of the laws of physics, who, given a complete description of the world at some particular time, could figure out the whole subsequent course of history-including all human actions.
A) Plato
B) Descartes
C) Newton
D) Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Q1: To say that a calculator is "deterministic"
Q2: According to determinists, the laws of physics
Q4: Regarding "chance" events, such as dice rolls
Q5: Owing to the belief in deterministic physics
Q6: It is now considered an open question
Q7: According to the text, in contrast to
Q8: The belief in free will is rejected
Q9: Which of the following is an aspect
Q10: Even granting that we have free will,
Q11: Determinism is particularly threatening to the idea
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