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<DIV>1. The word "free" is so full of meanings in different
languages,<BR>countries, cultures and contexts<BR>that it is more or less
impossible to "agree" on a definition</DIV>
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<DIV>Sorry! it is possible to agree upon a definition of freedon. </DIV>
<DIV>Getting (practically speaking) everybody to recognize and understand the
meaning of the "definition" is the hard part. </DIV>
<DIV>It is masked into us at birth: it is "a priori" (prior to experience),
intuition</DIV>
<DIV>Spinoza calls freedom the recognition of necessity, of law, of the relation
between Cause and Effect</DIV>
<DIV>This thread is bogged down in the endless loop of the mere
appearance of freedom. </DIV>
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<DIV>One appearence is "as in free beer"</DIV>
<DIV>Another is "as in free speech"</DIV>
<DIV>yet another is "as in free thought"</DIV>
<DIV>and another is " as in freedom to confuse the above three
appearances.</DIV>
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<DIV>That is the reason some of us are trying to seperate out the various
categories of of the Idea of freedom into ( at this stage) THREE
THREADS: </DIV>
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<DIV>Freedom
to
THINK something</DIV>
<DIV>Freedom
to
LOGI-cise on or about something</DIV>
<DIV>Freedom
to ACT
upon something</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For the comfort of all those Anarchist reading this who, maybe
think that I am speaking for a Cast System, I am not. This is
just another technological approach.</DIV></BODY></HTML>