13. Sider\'s example involving one million perfect duplicates of Hitler is meant
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13. Sider's example involving one million perfect duplicates of Hitler is meant to show that a. if quantum mechanics is true, then the laws of nature are not deterministic. The past and present together with the laws of nature do not determine all the facts about which future events will occur. They only determine the facts about the probabilities of those events. b. if quantum mechanics is true, then the laws of nature are deterministic. The past and present together with the laws of nature determine all the fact about which future events will occur. c. agent causal libertarianism is plausible if quantum mechanics is true, but not otherwise. d. agent causal libertarianism is plausible only if agent causation can disrupt the probabilities of future events, but if quantum mechanics is true, agent causation cannot do this. 14. Compatibilists say that: a. we have free will and, although the laws of nature are deterministic, that's only because we have freely chosen to make them so b. although the laws of nature are deterministic, we are still free, and in fact we often violate the laws of nature. (We do this whenever we act freely against what we were determined to do.) c. even if all of our actions are causally determined by the past plus the laws, that wouldn't rule out our acting freely, because free action isn't uncaused action; it's action that has the right sort of internal cause. d. Libertarianism is compatble with Hard DeterminismExplanation / Answer
13. The correct answer is Option A. Sider’s example illustrates that that if quantum mechanics is true, then the laws of nature are not deterministic.
14. The correct answer is Option C. Compatibilists hold that even though many of our actions are determined, it wouldn’t leave out the possibility of acting freely.
15. The correct answer is Option A. Reid’s example shows that the theory is false.
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