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sourcehood

noun

Etymology

From source + -hood.

  1. derived from *h₃réǵeti✻
  2. derived from surgō
  3. derived from sorse
  4. inherited from sours
  5. formed as sourcehood — “source + -hood”

Definitions

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

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA