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Standard argument against free will

The standard argument against free will is an argument that there exists a conflict between the possibility of free will and the postulates of determinism and indeterminism. A number of authors use this terminology.^[1]^[2]

A formal statement of the 'standard argument' can be phrased as follows:^[3]^[4]

1. The concept of determinism contradicts that of free will.

2. The concept of indeterminism also contradicts free will.

3. Some occurrences are governed by determinism, and all the rest by indeterminism.

all of which lead to the conclusion:

4. Free will does not govern any occurrences (does not exist).

The first two premises sometimes are referred to as the "deterministic" and "indeterministic" horns of the dilemma of determinism,^[5] the conflict between the intuition of personal autonomy and the intuition that the world proceeds in a manner independent of human concerns.

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