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    Supports→Traditional defenders of the cosmological argument cannot invoke the requirement of an absolute explanation.

    Libertarian free will requires that agents could have done otherwise under identical prior conditions, a possibility actualist realism forecloses by denying reality to non-actual alternatives.

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    Could have done otherwise(as a key requirement for free will)
    The idea that in a given situation, you had the real ability to choose a different action than the one you actually chose.
    Identical prior conditions(used to test whether freedom is real)
    Everything that happened or existed before a moment in time being exactly the same, without any difference.
    Non-actual alternatives(what actualist realism denies reality to)
    Choices or outcomes that could have happened but didn't—the 'what could have beens' that never came true.
    actualist realism(as used in metaphysics)
    The philosophical view that only things that actually exist are real, as opposed to possible things that could exist but don't.
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    libertarian free will(Used to frame the tension between divine freedom and divine moral goodness.)
    An account of free will according to which being free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise.

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