Frankfurt-style cases notwithstanding, Peter van Inwagen's consequence argument establishes that inevitability entails the agent could not have initiated any different causal chain.
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The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
causal chain(Avicenna's cosmological argument in Ilāhiyyāt VIII)
An ordered series of causes within a given causal type (formal, material, efficient, or final) that Avicenna argues must terminate in a First Cause
entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)
Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
inevitability(The intuition that determinism implies inevitability is identified as the primary obstacle to accepting compatibilism.)
The condition in which, given determinism, every event that occurs could not have been otherwise.