Assertion: person's action | /r/HasProperty | uncaused
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text: In hard determinism, freedom and determinism are incompatible because freedom would require that an action be uncaused.
text: Critics of indeterminism claim that, if so-called "free" choices and actions are uncaused, unpredictable, chance events, then no one who acted freely would know beforehand what he or she was about to do.
text: Hume’s own form of compatibilism is vulnerable to the same objection that he raised against the suggestion that free actions are uncaused.
text: Clearly, then, actions that are either uncaused or caused by external factors cannot render an agent responsible, not because it would be unreasonable to hold the person responsible, but rather because it would be psychologically impossible to hold the person responsible, where this stance is understood in terms of the operation of the moral sentiments.