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    Kane's SFWs require the agent to be the *cause* of which ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Kane's appeal to indeterminate efforts of will and indeterminism does not help meet the luck objection against event-causal libertarianism

    Kane's SFWs require the agent to be the *cause* of which indeterminate branch actualizes, yet event-causal accounts lack resources to assign this selection to the agent rather than chance.

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    Key Terms

    ASSIGN(formal predicate logic notation)
    The set of total assignments; all total functions from VAR to D
    Actualize(as describing what power someone has)
    To make something real or bring it into existence; to turn a possibility into reality.
    Event-causal(as used in philosophy of causation)
    The idea that one event causes another event to happen—like dominoes falling where each domino knock causes the next one to fall.
    Indeterminate(Reichenbach's three-valued quantum logic)
    The value of propositions that quantum theory implies cannot be assessed to be either true or false
    Kane(as an alternative approach to the free will problem)

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    Robert Kane, a philosopher who defends free will by arguing that indeterminism (randomness) can actually be compatible with real human control.
    SFWs(the central concept being discussed)
    Short for 'Self-Forming Willings'—Kane's term for crucial moments where you consciously make an important choice that shapes who you are as a person.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor

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