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    If the argument succeeds through (8), the causal history ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The fatalistic inference to (10) is blocked regardless of whether steps (1)-(8) succeed or fail.

    If the argument succeeds through (8), the causal history eliminating alternatives may itself undermine the sourcehood conditions Frankfurt cases require to preserve freedom.

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    • 1.Frankfurt cases require that an agent's actual choice flow from their own desires and reasoning, not external manipulation.
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    • 2.If causal history eliminates alternatives through prior constraints, the agent's actual choice may reflect those constraints rather than genuine sourcehood.
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    • 3.Sourcehood demands that freedom trace back to the agent's authentic values; historicized causal elimination undermines this authenticity.
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    • 1.Sourcehood conditions concern proximal causal chains (desires producing action), not distal history, so eliminating distant alternatives is irrelevant.
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    • 2.An agent can have authentic desires and rational agency even if historical conditions made those desires inevitable or foreclosed other options.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'causal history determines outcome' with 'causal history undermines sourcehood,' but determination doesn't entail loss of agency.
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