Positing a noumenal realm to ground freedom generates an explanatory regress: if noumenal acts are themselves uncaused, they become arbitrary; if caused, they replicate the original problem.
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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.
positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I
uncaused(as used in philosophy of causation)
Something that happens without any reason, explanation, or prior factor making it happen.