 As Hume (1748 [1999: 158]) and others have argued, adding that it seems to S as if there are alternatives doesn’t seem to help here (Chisholm 1967; Ginet 1990, 90–1). While the phenomenology of having alternatives—and more generally, of agency—is an important topic in its own right (Nagel 1986: ch. 7; Horgan, Tienson, &amp; Graham 2003), it does not secure the ability in question. Fred feels he can overcome the temptation to smoke, then decides to smoke anyway. But it turns out that he could not have resisted his craving. Nor is seeming to have alternatives necessary for having them. Fred’s sister Fanny feels she is too weak to overcome the temptation at noon to smoke, and in fact she does smoke at that time. But she was wrong about her own capacities: with just a bit of effort, she would have been able to resist.