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    It is not the case that Warfield's embrace of this combination thus saddles him with implausible armchair knowledge of the external world, not compatibilism.

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    • 1.Some metaphysical truths about freedom and causation may be knowable through conceptual analysis, not armchair empiricism.
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    • 2.The charge conflates the method (armchair reasoning) with the implausibility, but method doesn't determine truth-value.
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    • 3.Warfield's position could be defended as concerning logical compatibility, not empirical facts about the world.
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    • 1.Armchair reasoning alone cannot justify beliefs about external world facts without empirical verification.
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    • 2.Warfield's position requires knowing facts about compatibilism's truth without empirical investigation of actual causal processes.
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    • 3.This conflates a priori conceptual analysis with synthetic knowledge about how the world actually operates.
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