"We are 'free' (or whatever you want to call it), not because we are subject to chance rather than to strict natural laws, but because the progressive rationalization of the world--the attempt to catch the world in the net of knowledge--has limits, at any moment, in the growth of knowledge itself which, of course, is also a process that belongs to the world.K. Popper, in The Open Universe, section 23.
Rational action without foreknowledge--of a scientific, a hypothetical, kind at least---is impossible; and it is this very same foreknowledge which turns out to be so limited as to leave room for action--that is, for 'free' action."
See my review of his book.
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