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    It is not the case that Interpreting determinism as bypassing is a confusion.

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    • 1.Pereboom's 'hard incompatibilism' argues determinism does bypass reasons-responsiveness by tracing causes to factors wholly outside the agent.
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    • 2.If the causal chain originates in conditions predating the agent's existence, the agent's mental states are conduits, not originators, of action.
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    • 3.Being a conduit rather than an originator of behavior satisfies the functional definition of bypassing as used in Nichols and Knobe's experimental framework.
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    • 1.Kant distinguished heteronomy from autonomy precisely on whether the will is determined by external causal chains rather than rational self-legislation.
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    • 2.Under determinism, even mental states that appear to mediate behavior are themselves fully fixed by prior external causes, collapsing the autonomy-heteronomy distinction.
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    • 3.If heteronomy constitutes a form of bypassing rational agency, then determinism instantiates bypassing in a philosophically principled, non-confused sense.
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    • 1.Determinism holds that all events, including human behavior, are causally determined.
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    • 2.Even if determinism is true, behavior might still be caused by mental states rather than bypassing them.
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