But here is one major problem. Just as necessity seems to impinge on our freedom, so too does contingency. Suppose your action is uncaused, or has some contingent element such as chance or randomness. That doesn’t seem to make you free. On the contrary, it makes you lose control. You would now be a slave to chance instead of a slave to necessity. You don’t want decisions to just pop into your head, as a matter of contingency: you want to retain power over them. There seems to be no free will if all is necessary; but no free will if all is contingent either.
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