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• Freedom of Choice is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
• Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgments which apply only to actions that are freely chosen.
• Determinism is the philosophical view that all events are determined completely by previously existing causes.
• Causal determinism is the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature.
• Fatalism is the idea that everything is fated/destined to happen so that humans have no control over their future.
• Theological determinism is a form of determinism that holds that all events that happen are preordained or predestined to happen by a monotheistic deity or destined to occur given its omniscience.
• Logical determinism or Determinateness is the notion that all propositions, whether about the past, present, or future, are either true or false.
• Adequate Determinism is a statistical determinism where the statistics are near to certainty for large macroscopic objects.
• The many-worlds interpretation accepts the linear causal sets of sequential events with adequate consistency yet also suggests constant forking of causal chains creating "multiple universes" to account for multiple outcomes from single events.
• Existentialists View of Human Freedom states that Man is free because God gives him that freedom - freedom of choice.
• Freedom is a gift that God endowed to men.
• Freedom as such is good, but sometimes it becomes terrible.
• There is no absolute freedom since freedom is God’s gift to man in men’s humanity.
• Freedom should always be attuned to the nature of man because it is only being human where we can truly exercise our freedom.
• Freedom that enables man to determine according to his own choices is the freedom that is proper to man.
• Freedom should be personalized since it cannot be divorced from its impending responsibilities.
• There are three kinds of Freedom: Freedom from physical constraints, Freedom as one pleases, and the Authentic freedom.
• Man has the freedom to do anything he wants to do, but he is not free from the consequences of his actions.
• There is no freedom apart from the law, for laws are meant to regulate man’s exercise of freedom.