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    It is not the case that If determinism's truth-value in our world is inaccessible, systematizing its formal properties yields conceptual clarity without genuine philosophical progress on free will.

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    • 1.Free will's philosophical significance derives precisely from whether determinism obtains in our world; formal properties detached from this are idle.
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    • 2.Systematizing inaccessible properties mirrors scholastic exercises—internally coherent but disconnected from the normative concerns motivating free will inquiry.
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    • 3.Conceptual clarity without world-applicability cannot resolve whether we possess genuine agency or moral responsibility, free will's core stakes.
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    • 1.Conceptual clarity about determinism's logical structure is philosophically valuable even if empirical truth remains inaccessible.
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    • 2.Understanding what determinism formally entails for causation and agency advances metaphysics regardless of whether we know our world's actual status.
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    • 3.Free will debates require precise conceptual mapping; without it, progress collapses into semantic confusion rather than substantive disagreement.
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