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Hard determinism

The view that every event, including every human choice, is the fully caused product of prior states, and that no one therefore has libertarian free will — the felt sense of choosing freely is real, but the freedom is not.

Sources

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Causal Determinism"
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Arguments for Incompatibilism"

Related entries

CompatibilismLibertarian free willHard incompatibilism

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