Category
Thinking About Free Will
Description
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today. My favorite example of an inert historical fact is this: A. Some of the gold in my teeth once belonged to Julius Caesar.
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Source
Philosopher Daniel Dennett's Book Intuition Pumps