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    An act necessitated by a prior determining condition—even... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God's creative activity does not violate libertarian freedom.

    An act necessitated by a prior determining condition—even a 'ground of being'—fails the sourcehood condition required by libertarian freedom.

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    • 1.Sourcehood requires the agent, not prior conditions, to be the ultimate originator of action.
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    • 2.If prior conditions necessitate an act, the agent cannot have been otherwise—a core libertarian requirement.
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    • 3.Even divine grounds of being function as external determining forces that preclude agent originatorship.
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    • 1.A ground of being can constitute the agent's own nature; necessitation by one's essence doesn't negate sourcehood.
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    • 2.Sourcehood may require only that the agent's reasons/character caused the act, not exemption from all determination.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'determined by prior conditions' with 'determined by external prior conditions'—not identical.
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