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    A power that cannot be exercised under any accessible con... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Any agent who has the power to do something also has the power not to do that thing.

    A power that cannot be exercised under any accessible condition is not a genuine power, so the entailment from power-to-do to power-to-refrain fails.

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    • 1.Powers must be manifest in actual or possible exercise; purely theoretical capacities with zero accessible conditions are metaphysically idle.
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    • 2.If I have power to do X but no possible condition allows refraining from X, my doing X is necessitated, not genuinely powered.
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    • 3.Genuine agency requires alternative possibilities; a power whose exercise is inevitable is indistinguishable from compulsion.
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    • 1.A power's reality depends on its categorical basis, not on whether every possible exercise is accessible to the agent at any moment.
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    • 2.Even if refraining is currently impossible, the power to refrain remains genuine if it flows from the same capacities as the power to act.
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    • 3.Accessibility is agent-relative and context-dependent; inaccessibility in one scenario doesn't erase a power grounded in agent's nature.
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