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    Challenges→The principle of alternative possibilities (PAP) is false.

    Therefore, PAP is not a detachable intuition but is constitutively linked to the agent-causation account of free will, and rejecting PAP entails rejecting agent-causal libertarianism wholesale.

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    Key Terms

    Agent-causal libertarianism(Proposed counter to the Basic Argument, referenced via Clarke 2005a)
    A libertarian theory of free will in which the agent as substance cause initiates actions, proposed by some as a way to escape the Basic Argument's conclusion
    Constitutively linked(as used in philosophy of free will)
    So fundamentally connected that one thing is actually part of what makes the other thing what it is—you can't have one without the other.
    Detachable intuition(as used in philosophical arguments)
    A belief or instinct that seems true on its own and can be separated from other ideas, rather than being deeply connected to them.
    Libertarianism (in philosophy)(as used in philosophy of free will (different from the political view))
    The view that humans have free will in a strong sense—that our choices are not completely determined by prior causes or natural laws.

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    PAP(Frankfurt's argument targets this principle)
    The Principle of Alternate Possibilities, the principle that moral responsibility requires the ability to do otherwise
    agent-causation(Philosophy of action)
    An unanalyzed notion of causation in which the agent as a substance (rather than mental events) is taken to be the cause of action; contrasted with event-causal accounts.
    free will(Kant's practical resolution of the third antinomy)
    An exemption from the laws of nature; the power of doing and forbearing

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