Fischer's own transfer-of-powerlessness principle applies equally to non-causal dependencies, so CPP's weakness relative to causation is dialectically irrelevant to the original incompatibilist argument.
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Transfer-of-powerlessness principle(as Fischer's argument about responsibility)
An idea that if you can't control some basic fact, and that fact completely determines everything else that happens, then you can't control those other things either—like dominoes falling.
incompatibilism(The passage questions whether survey respondents who endorse incompatibilist conclusions genuinely hold incompatibilist views.)
The view that free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism.