The answer to this seems to be as to the sound example and to most philosophical debates in general:
1)Different categorization patterns, or, simply put, different meanings of a word. In this situation, even two words: people can disagree on what “will” is (in the context of “free”) and on what “free” is (in the context of “will”; let us assume a Frege-Heimian world where if you know the two nodes you always know their combination to ignore the “context” addenda).
2)Politization of the question. In the world where “free is good”, having free will is good. In the world where “determinism is good” and “free will is incompatible with determinism” having free will is bad. And people want to be good. Also, we may want to agree with someone (say, Gandhi) and disagree with someone (say, Fomenko) no matter what they say. Thus affective death spirals and one-sided politics and whatnot.
The answer to this seems to be as to the sound example and to most philosophical debates in general:
1)Different categorization patterns, or, simply put, different meanings of a word. In this situation, even two words: people can disagree on what “will” is (in the context of “free”) and on what “free” is (in the context of “will”; let us assume a Frege-Heimian world where if you know the two nodes you always know their combination to ignore the “context” addenda).
2)Politization of the question. In the world where “free is good”, having free will is good. In the world where “determinism is good” and “free will is incompatible with determinism” having free will is bad. And people want to be good. Also, we may want to agree with someone (say, Gandhi) and disagree with someone (say, Fomenko) no matter what they say. Thus affective death spirals and one-sided politics and whatnot.