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    It is not the case that Even a very specific prophecy that renders an action inevitable does not thereby make that action unfree.

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    • 1.If a specific prophecy guarantees an action will occur, then no alternative possibilities exist for the agent at the moment of action.
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    • 2.Genuine freedom of will requires the ability to do otherwise under identical circumstances, as defended by libertarians from Reid to van Inwagen.
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    • 3.An action that admits of no alternative possibilities cannot be free in the morally relevant sense, even if performed without external compulsion.
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    • 1.The distinction between freedom of action and freedom of will collapses when the will itself is the object rendered inevitable by the prophecy.
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    • 2.Frankfurt-style compatibilism notwithstanding, if a prophesied agent's deliberative process is pre-determined by foreknowledge, the will's authenticity is undermined, as Kant argued in the Critique of Pure Reason regarding causal necessity and rational autonomy.
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    • 1.Rendering an action inevitable is not the same as making the action unfree.
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    • 2.Freedom of action is distinct from freedom of will.
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    • 3.An action can be inevitable and yet still be a free action.
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