I reread your first post, and I think that you might have understood the word “action” too literally. Determinism is not presupposed in ANY human action, but to plan your next move, you need some idea of what its effect will be. And to do that, you need rules. That’s causality.
The quote was about freedom. My question was about causal determinism, and it wasn’t about the relationship between causal determinism and freedom.
I reread your first post, and I think that you might have understood the word “action” too literally. Determinism is not presupposed in ANY human action, but to plan your next move, you need some idea of what its effect will be. And to do that, you need rules. That’s causality.