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    A true proposition belongs to God's free knowledge if and only if it is a contingent truth within God's control

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    • 1.God's free knowledge is subject to God's free decision
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    • 2.A contingent truth is an actual truth that could have been false under different circumstances
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    • 3.God could have brought it about that contingent truths were false instead
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    • 1.Molinism posits middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, which are contingent yet outside God's direct causal control.
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    • 2.If contingent truths grounded in creature's free choices are not 'within God's control', they cannot belong to free knowledge, yet God knows them.
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    • 3.Therefore, contingency alone is insufficient to distinguish free knowledge; the locus of control must also be specified, undermining the biconditional.
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    • 1.Boethius and Aquinas argue God's eternity places all temporal contingents under God's simultaneous vision, not under deliberate divine decision.
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    • 2.A contingent truth like 'Caesar crossed the Rubicon' was not within God's control to alter without violating creaturely libertarian freedom.
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    • 3.God's knowledge of such truths is neither purely natural nor freely chosen in the relevant sense, falsifying the proposed biconditional.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The second kind of knowledge that God possesses is called free knowledge because it is subject to God’s free decision. According to Molina, a true proposition is part of God’s free knowledge if and only if it is a contingent truth (an actual truth which could have been false under different circumstances) that is within God’s control. Examples of such true propositions would include “The same side of the moon always faces the Earth”, “Human beings exist” and “There are iguanas in South America”,
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    If contingent truths grounded in creature's free choices are not 'within God's c...
    Molinism posits middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, which...
    Therefore, contingency alone is insufficient to distinguish free knowledge; the ...
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