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They can reject (1), they can reject (2), or they can accept (1) and (2) and explain why the very plausible sounding (3) is nonetheless false.
Therefore, the Meinongian can accept (1) as true, without resorting to any kind of paraphrase.
Evidently, the lower the threshold for conceivability, the easier it is to accept (1) — but the harder it is to accept (2).
The third and final strategy that platonists can pursue is to accept (1) and (2) and explain why (3) is nonetheless false.
Therefore, if determinism is false, I am not the first cause or ultimate source of my choices and, if we accept (1), I am neither free nor responsible (Ayer 1954, Wolf 1990).
If determinism is true, then my choices are ultimately caused by events and conditions outside my control, so I am not their first cause and therefore, if we accept (1), I am neither free nor responsible.
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