Mele's 'luck pincer' establishes that indeterminism either reduces agent control (if pre-decisional) or renders the outcome arbitrary (if decisional), leaving no viable middle ground for Kane.
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Pre-decisional(as one timing option in the luck pincer argument)
Something that happens before you actually make a decision—in other words, factors or events that come before the moment you choose.
arbitrary(Debate over Locke's watch passage and natural kind classification)
Does not mean 'random' or that all qualities are equally adequate as differentia; refers instead to the availability of multiple similarly good and natural grounds for classification.
indeterminism(implied by the text's classification of agent causation as a form of indeterminism)
The view that there are certain events that are not fixed as a matter of natural law