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    It is not the case that A person is free to endeavor to make p happen

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    • 1.The mere absence of sufficient causal conditions does not constitute freedom; randomness and freedom are categorically distinct.
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    • 2.If no causal condition determines the endeavor, the action cannot be attributed to the agent's will rather than mere chance.
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    • 3.Agentive freedom requires that the agent be the intelligible source of action, which causal absence alone cannot provide.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's cases demonstrate that freedom requires the ability to act on one's own reasons, not the absence of causal determination.
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    • 2.A person may lack sufficient causal conditions for both endeavoring and not endeavoring, yet still be coerced by manipulation of their deliberative process.
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    • 3.Therefore, the absence of sufficient causal conditions is neither necessary nor sufficient for the kind of freedom relevant to moral responsibility.
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    • 1.At a certain time there is no sufficient causal condition for the person to endeavor to bring about p
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    • 2.At that time there is no sufficient causal condition for the person to fail to endeavor to bring about p
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