Agent causation theories (Chisholm, O'Connor) posit a sui generis causal power, but this faces the 'luck objection': if agent causation is undetermined, the agent's choice remains arbitrary.
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arbitrary(Debate over Locke's watch passage and natural kind classification)
Does not mean 'random' or that all qualities are equally adequate as differentia; refers instead to the availability of multiple similarly good and natural grounds for classification.
sui generis(Used to characterize goodness if naturalistic definitions all fail.)
A notion that can only be understood in its own terms — in this context, goodness can only be understood in evaluative, not empirical or naturalistic, terms.
undetermined(Introduced by Łukasiewicz to restrict the validity of bivalence and avoid logical determinism)
A third truth-value, distinct from true and false, applied to contingent propositions regarding the future