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    It is not the case that The dependence point alone does not show that the hard past isn't fixed.

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    • 1.Showing that the hard past isn't fixed would require that the agent upon whose action the past depends really can act otherwise.
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    • 2.The claim that the agent can act otherwise is simply asserted rather than argued by proponents of the dependence point.
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    • 3.Whether the agent can act otherwise is the very point at issue, so simply assuming it begs the question.
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    • 1.The fixity of the past is itself a modal claim that requires independent justification beyond mere temporal precedence.
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    • 2.David Lewis's conditional analysis shows 'can act otherwise' need not entail changing the past, only that a different possible world with that action is accessible.
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    • 3.If fixity of the past cannot be established without presupposing the falsity of libertarian freedom, the objection is equally question-begging.
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    • 1.Soft facts about the past, as established by Marilyn Adams, are logically dependent on future contingents and thus not genuinely fixed in the relevant sense.
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    • 2.The dependence point identifies a structural feature of soft facts that undermines the premise that all past truths are equally fixed, shifting the burden of proof to the compatibilist about fixity.
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