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Non sequitur.



It follows directly from lack of free will. Lack of free will does not mean that the author makes correct statements about his beliefs all the time.


Then you are making an irrelevant statement about the causality of him writing a book. Not about how his apparent belief is incoherent or not.

Thus a non sequitur.


I understand what you're saying now. Thanks for spelling out what you meant by your previous comment.

A better response would have been if I spelled out that persuading people not to believe in free will does not require the persuader to believe in free will.




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