An argument form that entails no agent in a deterministic universe is ever responsible proves too much and must be rejected by modus tollens, given strong pre-theoretical intuitions about ordinary responsibility.
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The everyday sense we have that people are genuinely responsible for their choices and actions in normal life situations.
pre-theoretical intuitions(in epistemology and philosophy of language)
Your gut instincts or common-sense beliefs about something before you've studied any theory or philosophy about it.
proves too much(Applied to Pascal's Wager to show it would equally justify belief in incompatible theistic hypotheses)
A dialectical objection where an argument is shown to be flawed because the same form of reasoning, applied consistently, would justify conclusions that are clearly false or mutually contradictory.