Free Will
Science may conduct business on the assumption of determinism. However:
Science "must be constantly reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes, and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claims at all."
Although a methodological determinist, James abandoned metaphysical determinism with the declaration,
"My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."
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