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    Robert Kane's appeal to indeterminism requires that agent... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The condition that an action not have any cause outside the agent is not a sufficient condition for libertarian free will.

    Robert Kane's appeal to indeterminism requires that agents identify with and take responsibility for whichever way undetermined choices resolve, showing mere absence of external cause is insufficient.

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    External cause(what some argue each contingent thing needs)
    Something outside of an object that makes it exist or happen; for example, a match is an external cause of a flame.
    Identify with(as used in philosophy of divine nature)
    To relate to, understand, or feel a sense of connection with someone's feelings, experiences, or perspective.
    Robert Kane(as the main philosopher referenced in this statement)
    A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in free will and argues that people can have genuine freedom and moral responsibility even if some of their choices are undetermined (not completely caused by prior events).
    Take responsibility(as used in ethics)
    To acknowledge that you did something wrong and accept the consequences or blame for it, rather than denying it or blaming others.

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    Undetermined choices(as the type of choice Kane's theory addresses)
    Decisions or actions that weren't completely caused or forced by anything external—they genuinely could have gone a different way.
    agents(referring to people in this philosophical discussion)
    People, or more broadly, any thinking being capable of having beliefs and making decisions.
    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

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