Assertion: person's behavior | /r/HasProperty | determined
Facets:
value: causally
type: MANNER
value: by the actual past
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The difference is that the necessity involved in determinism is compatible with agents acting as they choose to act: even if S’s behavior is causally determined, it may be behavior that she chooses to perform.
text: Even if a person’s actual behavior is causally determined by the actual past, it may be that if the past had been suitably different (e.g., if the person’s desires, intentions, choices, etc. had been different), then she would have acted differently.