H. P. Grice: "Who taught S. N. Hampshire to use 'certain'? Was it H. L. A. Hart?"

The 'dissolution' of the concept of freedom is usually accompanied by the demise of a usage of 'know' in which we speak not of knowing that p, for any 'p,' but of knowing that the agent will do X, to which H. L. A. Hart and S. N. Hampshire draw our attention.

For if all is determined, there is nothing to choose between, and so nothing to decide.

Perhaps those who have said of freedom that it is the recognition of necessity were contemplating this very situation.

If so, their notion of freedom is radically different from those who define it in terms of conscious choice and decision.