Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sourcehood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: source-hood
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The quality of being the source of one's own decisions.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"On the second conception, free will consists in meeting a sourcehood condition: a free agent must be the "ultimate source of her actions" (10)."
"Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument."

Etymology

From source + -hood.

Usage

Uncountable

Phrases

free will

Frequently Paired Words

free will

Questions

What does sourcehood mean?: The quality of being the source of one's own decisions.
Where does sourcehood come from?: From source + -hood.

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