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    Satisfying ordinary folk attributions of free action is insufficient, since folk intuitions systematically conflate freedom from coercion with genuine metaphysical freedom.

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    • 1.Folk intuitions track absence of external constraint, not absence of causal determination by prior states and laws.
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    • 2.Genuine metaphysical freedom requires agent authorship independent of causal history, which folk attributions never assess.
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    • 3.Empirical studies show people attribute freedom identically to deterministic and indeterministic scenarios when coercion is absent.
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    • 1.Folk attributions of free action successfully predict and explain behavior; philosophical standards shouldn't override practical adequacy.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'freedom from coercion' and 'metaphysical freedom' may be a philosophical construct, not a real explanatory gap.
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    • 3.If ordinary attributions systematically conflate two concepts, this suggests those concepts may not be as distinct as philosophers assume.
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