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    Challenges→The will is not compelled by a thing's being good.

    If the degree of perceived goodness is always the sufficient reason for volition, then goodness compels the will in the sense that no alternative could have been chosen given the same cognitive state.

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    Key Terms

    Cognitive state(philosophy of mind)
    A mental condition or way your mind is in at a particular moment, like believing something, perceiving something, or remembering something.
    compels the will(as used in debates about free will)
    Forces a person to choose something because they have no realistic alternative—like being pushed toward a decision.
    determinism(Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
    A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')
    perceived goodness(as used in ethics and philosophy of action)
    How good or desirable something appears to a person based on what they know and believe about it at that moment.

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    sufficient reason(Used by Leibniz to distinguish genuine explanatory grounds from mere descriptions.)
    A reason adequate to determine why a thing is as it is and not otherwise.
    volition(Epictetan Stoicism; contrasted with the body)
    The faculty of choice or will that is unimpeded and executes only its own choices; the aspect of the person fully within one's control.

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