In This Essay Chisholm Argues That Free Actions Are Possible

question 7

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In this essay Chisholm argues that free actions are possible because they are caused not by indefinitely long sequences of preceding events but rather by an agent (or self). He calls the former kind of causation "event causation" and the latter "agent causation." In his view, when we act freely, we act like God-a prime mover that is itself unmoved, an uncaused cause of events.
-Chisholm says that each of us, when we act, is a prime mover unmoved.

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Definitions:

Perfectly Elastic

Describes a situation where the quantity demanded or supplied responds infinitely or by unlimited quantity to any change in price, represented graphically as a horizontal line.

Quantity Demanded

The amount (number of units) of a product that a household would buy in a given period if it could buy all it wanted at the current market price.

Breaks Even

Achieves a situation where there is no profit or loss, synonymous with the concept of the break-even point but phrased differently.

Perfectly Competitive

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