If I argued that a person can sometimes choose between several different possible roads to home and actually takes one after making a free choice of the will that is determined by nothing but the will itself, I am arguing for the position called ___________
a. strict determinism
b. indeterminism
c. compatibilism
d. active self-determinismv
ANS: B
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