Hume: free will and a fully determined universe aren't actually in conflict

David Hume argued the whole free-will debate rests on a bad definition of liberty. Redefine freedom not as an escape from causation, but simply as acting according to your own desires without external coercion, and free will becomes compatible with every event having a prior cause. This 'compatibilist' move remains the majority position among philosophers today.

— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding — 1748
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