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    Frankfurt-style cases demonstrate that an agent can posse... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Any agent who has the power to do something also has the power not to do that thing.

    Frankfurt-style cases demonstrate that an agent can possess a power to act while a counterfactual intervener guarantees the alternative cannot be realized.

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    • 1.An agent's power to act depends on their intrinsic capacities, not on what external interveners might do in unrealized scenarios.
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    • 2.Frankfurt cases show agents acting on their actual motivations absent intervention, demonstrating genuine alternative possibilities in action.
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    • 3.Moral responsibility requires only that an agent could have acted differently given their actual mental states, not metaphysical freedom from all causal determination.
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    • 1.If an intervener guarantees an alternative cannot occur, the agent lacks a genuine power to realize that alternative, making the power illusory.
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    • 2.The distinction between actual and counterfactual scenarios collapses under scrutiny—powers must extend to what agents could actually do, not just what they do when unblocked.
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    • 3.Frankfurt cases conflate acting on one's desires with possessing the power to do otherwise, which are logically separable conditions for free will.
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