David Hume, who was a soft determinist, believed that we could say that an act was free

A) ?so long as indeterminism was true.
B) ?if it followed from a person's "character."
C) ?so long as its past causes were not sufficient to produce it.
D) ?the person performing it was not morally blameworthy.


B

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