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Presented by philosopher Harry Frankfurt in 1969.
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Today it means: Any of a set of counterexamples to the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP), which holds that an agent is morally responsible for an action only if they could have acted otherwise. Full definition →
Presented by philosopher Harry Frankfurt in 1969.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.