The very experience of deliberating attests a freedom no theory can erase.

Supports

When I deliberate, I directly undergo a power: holding several possibilities open, then settling.
This experience is primary: every theory, determinism included, must lean on it merely to be thought and argued.
To dismiss that immediate testimony in the name of a theory would be to saw off the branch on which the argument itself sits.

Therefore is therefore a primary given, which any theory must respect before denying it.

How far does this reasoning convince you?

Not at all

Entirely

Objection