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if determinism is true, we do not have free choice and cannot choose to do other than what we do. He laid out the groundwork later expanded on by van Inwagen, which was to invoke the laws of nature and the state of the world prior to and independently of the agent's place within it. Ginet argued that because the agent did not control the state of the world prior to his birth, and the state of the world at that time directly caused his actions, the agent could not have control of his own actions. Ginet relied on the concept of free choice as requiring

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