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    Supports→The argument based on libertarian free will is not immune from challenge.

    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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    Agent causation(Emphasized in Aquinas's later work, per Montagnes)
    The active transmission of properties from God to creatures.
    Causal power(as used in metaphysics)
    The ability of something to make other things happen or change; the capacity to be a cause.
    Chisholm and O'Connor(as cited defenders of agent causation)
    Roderick Chisholm and Timothy O'Connor are philosophers who developed and defended the theory that agents can be direct causes of their own actions, independent of prior events.
    Luck objection(as a challenge to theories of free will)
    A philosophical problem arguing that free will seems impossible: if your actions are determined by prior causes, you don't control them; but if they're random, luck controls them instead—either way, you're not truly free.

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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

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