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What are you referring to as "both requisites"?
No one has acted differently than they did. The way you acted is the reference for determining what is different. Different actions are, by definition, not the way you acted. That's why the second standard is incoherent.
"Could have acted differently" doesn't have that problem.
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Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press: "Free will, in philosophy, the doctrine that an individual, regardless of forces external to him, can and does choose at least some of his actions."
Can and does. Not could but didn't.
(But then philosophers in general do sometimes appear incoherent, especially to their fauxs, no pun intended.)
