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    It is not the case that Scotus argues that the will's self-motion (as an active power originating its own act) is irreducible to any intellectual operation, establishing an asymmetry of causal kind, not merely act.

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    • 1.An unmoved mover principle applied to will creates infinite regress: what explains will's self-motion if not prior causal factors?
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    • 2.The asymmetry claim relies on distinguishing 'causal kind' without explaining what this distinction ontologically amounts to or why it's coherent.
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    • 3.Empirically, will-acts consistently correlate with and follow from evaluative judgments, suggesting functional inseparability rather than independence.
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    • 1.Intellect determines objects as good/desirable, but cannot explain why will *chooses* this object over others given identical intellectual content.
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    • 2.If will's act were reducible to intellect, libertarian freedom vanishes—all volition becomes determined by prior intellectual states.
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    • 3.Only positing will as active power with its own causal origin preserves genuine agent causation distinct from event causation.
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