On a Humean view, since laws have no governing necessity, an agent's counterfactual choice revises the Humean mosaic rather than 'breaking' a law, making the soft determinist's local-miracle compatibilism more tractable than on governing-laws views.
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governing necessity(contrasted with the Humean view)
The idea that laws of nature actually force or compel events to happen in a particular way, like they have power to make things occur.
governing-laws views(contrasted with the Humean view)
Philosophical perspectives that treat laws of nature as real forces or rules that actively make events happen, as opposed to just patterns we observe.
local-miracle compatibilism(describes a soft determinist position)
A theory that tries to make free will compatible with determinism by saying a free choice is like a small miracle—an exception to the normal rules—happening only in that one moment or location.
soft determinist(identifies the philosophical position being evaluated)
A philosopher who believes that free will and determinism (the idea that everything is predetermined) can actually be compatible with each other.
tractable(describes how plausible or workable a philosophical theory is)
Easy to work with, manage, or make sense of; not causing problems or being too difficult to deal with.