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    A respondent who conflates determinism with bypassing may... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→People who give incompatibilist responses because they confuse determinism with bypassing do not hold a genuine commitment to incompatibilism.

    A respondent who conflates determinism with bypassing may still possess a genuine incompatibilist intuition that determinism undermines the self-authorship required for moral responsibility.

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    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    Incompatibilist(as used in philosophy of free will)
    A philosopher who believes that determinism and free will cannot both be true at the same time—if everything is determined, we can't be truly free.
    Self-authorship(as used in theories of freedom and responsibility)
    The idea that you are truly in control of your own choices and decisions, rather than being controlled by outside forces.
    bypassing(Contrasted with determinism; the author treats bypassing as a distinct concept that people mistakenly conflate with determinism.)
    A condition in which mental states have no causal impact on behavior — behavior occurs independently of, or around, mental states.

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    determinism(Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
    A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')
    moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
    A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)

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