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    If determinism loses its modal force under Humeanism, the... — Carmelics
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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 determinism loses its modal force under Humeanism, the traditional incompatibilist threat—that laws compel agents—dissolves without requiring independent resolution.

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    • 1.Humeanism reduces laws to regularities, eliminating the necessity that makes compulsion metaphysically possible.
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    • 2.If laws merely describe rather than constrain, agents can be free despite determinism without resolving modal tensions.
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    • 3.Incompatibilism requires laws to have force independent of events; Humeanism denies this independence.
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    • 1.Regularities themselves might still constrain future possibilities, preserving the compulsion worry even without necessity.
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    • 2.Humeanism's dissolution is merely verbal—it redefines 'compulsion' rather than solving why determinism threatens freedom.
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    • 3.Incompatibilists can ground their threat in causal determination itself, not modal force in laws.
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