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    It is not the case that A regress-stopping explanation must be intrinsically self-explanatory, a criterion that personal agency (Hume, Dialogues XI) satisfies no better than brute physical necessity.

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    • 1.Personal agency involves rational deliberation and responsiveness to reasons, a structure brute necessity completely lacks.
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    • 2.Self-explanatory means conceptually self-contained; 'I acted for reasons I endorsed' provides internal coherence distinct from 'it just happened'.
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    • 3.Hume's reductionism about agency doesn't prove agency lacks explanatory self-sufficiency—only that it's metaphysically economical.
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    • 1.Both personal agency and brute necessity invoke irreducible facts that halt explanation without further justification.
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    • 2.Hume showed agents' choices depend on prior desires and character, making agency no more foundationally self-explanatory than physical laws.
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    • 3.If regress-stopping requires intrinsic self-explanatoriness, neither contingent physical facts nor contingent mental acts qualify equally well.
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