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    The supporting argument's premise 3 therefore actually su... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even on a Humean view of laws, it does not automatically follow that humans have the freedom to have done otherwise given certain past states of affairs.

    The supporting argument's premise 3 therefore actually supports compatibilist freedom rather than undermining it, reversing the direction of the original claim.

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    • 1.Compatibilism requires that free actions flow from an agent's own desires, values, and reasoning—exactly what premise 3 describes.
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    • 2.If premise 3 establishes that our choices arise from internal causal processes rather than external force, it vindicates compatibilist freedom.
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    • 3.The original argument conflates 'determined by internal states' with 'unfree,' but compatibilists reject this conflation as the core error.
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    • 1.Premise 3's support for compatibilism only works if compatibilism is already assumed true; it doesn't independently vindicate the position.
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    • 2.Showing that actions flow from internal states doesn't address whether those states themselves are ultimately determined by factors beyond control.
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    • 3.The direction-reversal claim simply reassigns premise 3 to a different conclusion without resolving the underlying metaphysical disagreement.
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