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    Counterfactual possibilities of interference describe a f... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A person can be unfree even when experiencing no actual interference

    Counterfactual possibilities of interference describe a feature of one's social situation, not one's liberty, which is an empirical rather than modal property.

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    • 1.Liberty describes actual constraints on action (what one can do now), not mere possibilities of what others could do.
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    • 2.Social interference patterns are observable facts about institutional structures, independent of counterfactual modal claims.
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    • 3.Two people with identical actual constraints have equal liberty regardless of how many counterfactual ways they could be blocked.
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    • 1.Liberty inherently concerns what one is free to do, which depends on what interferences are possible, not just actual.
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    • 2.A society with ready-made counterfactual interference mechanisms systematically differs in freedom from one without them.
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    • 3.Distinguishing social facts from modal properties collapses—institutional structures are precisely systems of potential interference.
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