t that
| every event is caused by some preceding events, so that every event can be
| explained or predicted. ...  On the other hand, ... common sense attributes
| to mature and sane human persons ... the ability to choose freely between
| alternative possibilities of acting."  This "dilemma of determinism", as
| William James called it, is closely related to the meaning of time.  Is the
| future given, or is it under perpetual construction?  A profound dilemma for
| all of mankind, as time is the fundament