How Can I Mend the Beta Part?

(Sung to “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” by The Bee Gees (Brothers Gibb))

(Dedicated to The Garden of Forking Paths and Peter van Inwagen,

John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy, The University of Notre Dame,

 in tribute to his “reasons responsiveness” to critics of his Consequence Argument

in his remarkable “Free Will Remains a Mystery”)

 

I still think in my Essay I was exactly right

deterministic freedom will not do.

I could never change world nomos so I could not be blamed for any faux pas.

 

And—

How can I mend the Beta part?

How can I stop agglomerating frowns?

How can I stop entailment failing?

What makes my reason sound?

 

How can I mend my modal plan?

How can the Np be valid?

Please help me mend my Beta part, or be mysterian.

 

I can still think with ease that causes only freeze

the tracks of what can be within our minds—

I could never change world nomos so I could not be blamed for any faux pas.

 

And—

How can I mend the Beta part?

How can I stop agglomerating frowns?

How can I stop entailment failing?

What makes my reason sound?

And—

How can I mend my modal plan?

How can the Np be valid?

Please help me mend my Beta part, or be mysterian.

 

Nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nahanah

Nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah. . .

 

Please help me mend my Beta part, or be mysterian.

 

Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah

Notre Daaaaaaammmmmme. . .