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Maybe you don’t have as much choice as you think – The Guardian (Aug 05, 2016)

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Maybe you don’t have as much choice as you think – The Guardian (Aug 05, 2016)

One excellent way to bring a dinner party to a close, if it’s late and you’d like your guests to leave, is to raise the philosophical question of “free will”. Do we have any? It certainly seems that way. Suppose I’m at the supermarket, about to reach for a jar of blackcurrant jam: surely it’s within my power to change my mind and switch to apricot? Yet some philosophers say it isn’t. For further reading, visit “The Guardian”.

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Word List:

  1. Freewill (noun) – voluntarily, willingly, readily, spontaneously.
  2. Limb (noun) – leg or arm (of a person).
  3. Millennia (noun) – plural form of millennium (a period of thousand years).
  4. Big Bang (noun) – (relating to big bang theory) the cosmic expansion which marked the origin of the universe.
  5. Outrageous (adjective) – unusual, strange, shocking, surprising.
  6. Scenario (noun) – situation, setting, background, context, scene.
  7. Anomaly (noun) – abnormality, irregularity, oddity, deviation.
  8. In the air (phrase) – felt by a lot of people.
  9. Shoot up (phrasal verb) – increase, soar, grow, rise rapidly.
  10. Striking (adjective) – noticeable, prominent; significant, remarkable, extraordinary.
  11. Persuader (noun) – a person who persuades/induces someone to do something.
  12. Make up one’s mind (phrase) – decide, make a decision; determine, resolve.
  13. Off course (phrase) – not going in the pre-planned path.
  14. Means (noun)- method, way, manner, mode.
  15. Lack of (noun) – absence, insufficiency, shortage, shortfall, scarcity.
  16. Autonomy (noun) – self-sufficiency, individualism; self-determination, freedom from influences.
  17. Inevitably (adverb) – naturally, automatically, necessarily.

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