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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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