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    Challenges→An agent could have done otherwise even under determinism

    If alternative possibilities depend on random quantum fluctuations rather than the agent's own reasons, they cannot constitute the agent-controlled freedom libertarianism requires.

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    Agent's own reasons(as used in discussions of responsibility and free will)
    A person's own motivations, beliefs, and values that guide their choices—things that actually belong to them and reflect who they are.
    Agent-controlled(as used in discussions of free will and responsibility)
    Something that is directly under a person's own control or power, rather than controlled by outside forces or pure chance.
    Alternative possibilities(as what the agent supposedly lacks)
    The ability to have done something different—meaning you could have genuinely chosen a different action under the same circumstances.
    Libertarianism (in philosophy)(as used in philosophy of free will (different from the political view))
    The view that humans have free will in a strong sense—that our choices are not completely determined by prior causes or natural laws.

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    Random quantum fluctuations(as used in physics and free will debates)
    Unpredictable, tiny changes in particles at the smallest scales of reality that happen by pure chance, not because of anything anyone did.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    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
    freedom(Philip's theory of free action)
    The capacity of a faculty to have acted otherwise than it did; primarily located in the will rather than the intellect.

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