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Great post! So to see if I’ve got the definitions right.

Is alternativity the free will where the universe really could have gone either way and the chooser haas some mystical ability to pick?

Whereas with self-determination , cause and effect was going to happen anyway, things including the decision are as predictable as anything. And yet the chooser still chose, even if it was inevitable?

I think I find the whole western argument about free will annoying because I believe the choice is inevitable but still chosen, computed, evaluated by the chooser, so they still have moral culpablity. And that maps the folk notions you mention?

But no sure if I have it backwards?

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I would niggle at your notion of inevitability but everything else is spot on! And even without this mystical ability or freedom to do otherwise, moral responsibility would still exist. I think A. J. Ayer's notion of freedom to do otherwise, given the chance, is a much more serviceable notion of free will than the type of freedom that tried to escape cause-and-effect entirely.

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