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    Challenges→The Humean approach to laws of nature does not by itself resolve the problem of determinism and human freedom.

    If agents are partially constitutive of the laws governing them, the asymmetry between 'law' and 'agent' presupposed by classical incompatibilist arguments is undermined from within Humeanism itself.

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    Key Terms

    Humeanism(Lewis's Humean denial of necessary connections)
    The doctrine denying necessary connections between entirely distinct existences
    agents(referring to people in this philosophical discussion)
    People, or more broadly, any thinking being capable of having beliefs and making decisions.
    asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
    A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
    Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
    incompatibilist arguments(philosophy of free will)

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    Arguments claiming that free will and determinism (the idea that everything is predetermined) cannot both be true at the same time.
    undermined from within(philosophy of logic)
    Weakened or destroyed by something inside the system itself—like discovering a flaw in a building's own foundation.

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