 Determination requires an efficient cause. If that cause is the being himself, I plead for no more. If not, then it is no longer his determination; that is, he is no longer the determiner, but the motive, or whatever else any one will say to be the cause of the determination. To ask, what effects our determination, is the very same with asking who did an action, after being informed that such a one did it. (R 181–2)