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Meaning of sourcehood | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The quality of being the source of one's own decisions.

uncountable

Examples

“On the second conception, free will consists in meeting a sourcehood condition: a free agent must be the "ultimate source of her actions" (10).”
“Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view⟳ that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view⟳ is just part of this overall argument.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

sourcelessness Sourcemod sourceness sourcer sourcerer Sources

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