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    Supports→The condition that an action not have any cause outside the agent is not a sufficient condition for libertarian free will.

    Agent causation, as defended by Roderick Chisholm, posits a distinct ontological category where persons cause events without being caused by prior events, satisfying sourcehood without randomness.

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    Agent causation(Emphasized in Aquinas's later work, per Montagnes)
    The active transmission of properties from God to creatures.
    Caused by prior events(the chain of causation that agent causation tries to break free from)
    Things that happen only because of something that happened before them—like dominoes falling, where each domino only falls because the previous one hit it.
    Ontological category(as used in metaphysics)
    A fundamental type or kind of thing that exists; like how 'physical objects,' 'numbers,' or 'ideas' might be different categories of what exists.
    Roderick Chisholm(as referenced by name in the statement)
    A 20th-century American philosopher known for developing detailed theories about knowledge, justified belief, and how much evidence we need to believe something.

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    randomness(Contrasted with chance as a process notion)
    A product notion applying in the first instance to sequences of outcomes
    sourcehood(Central to source incompatibilist arguments against compatibilism)
    The property of an agent being the origin or source of their actions in a way required for moral responsibility

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