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    It is not the case that Robert Adams's grounding objection shows that basing agent freedom on pre-volitional counterfactual truths displaces the agent as the ultimate source of her own action, violating sourcehood requirements central to libertarianism.

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    • 1.Counterfactual facts about what an agent would do aren't external constraints—they're grounded in the agent's own dispositions and character.
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    • 2.Sourcehood can be preserved if we understand grounding as constitutive rather than causal: counterfactuals constitute the agent's capacities.
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    • 3.All modal facts are pre-volitional; rejecting counterfactual grounding doesn't escape the need to ground freedom in some prior truths.
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    • 1.If an agent's freedom depends on facts about counterfactuals fixed before her volition occurs, those facts—not the agent—determine her action.
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    • 2.Libertarian sourcehood requires the agent herself to be the ultimate explanatory ground of her free choice, not prior logical facts.
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    • 3.Adams's objection correctly identifies that pre-volitional counterfactual truths reduce agents to mere conduits for pre-existing modal facts.
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