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sourcehood

sourcehood noun: the quality of being the source of one's own decisions.

Noun

sourcehood (uncountable)

  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).2009 March 25, C. P. Ragland, “Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives”, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
    • 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.2015 January 1, John Danaher, “The Free Will Debate: Sourcehood or Alternative Possibilities?”, in Philosophical Disquisitions

Origin of sourcehood

From source + -hood.

Questions about sourcehood

What does sourcehood mean?
Sourcehood means the quality of being the source of one's own decisions.
What part of speech is sourcehood?
Sourcehood is a noun.

Words near sourcehood in the dictionary

  1. sourceable
  2. sourcebook
  3. sourcebooks
  4. sourcecode
  5. sourced
  6. sourcehood
  7. sourceless
  8. sourcelessly
  9. sourcelessness
  10. Sourcemod
  11. sourceness

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