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    Supports→The intellect is not fully free in its activities prior to the final judgment about what action to take.

    Beliefs play a role in deliberation, so constraints on beliefs constrain the intellect in its deliberative activities.

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    Philip modifies this position (McCluskey 2001). He thinks that only the final activity of the intellect is performed freely, that is, the final judgment about what course of action to take. This is because Philip thinks that with respect to the previous activities of the intellect, activities such as identifying possible courses of action and deliberating over them, the intellect suffers from certain constraints. These constraints have to do with the structure of the world around us which in tu

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