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    Challenges→Present truths about future events are made true by future decisions, not the reverse.

    Accepting that future decisions ground present truths commits one either to fatalism or to a non-classical logic of future contingents, neither of which supports libertarian free will.

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    Ground/grounding(Used to describe what makes truths true)
    What makes something true or real; the foundation or basis that explains why something exists or is the case.
    Non-classical logic(the type of logical infrastructure involved)
    A system of reasoning that doesn't follow the traditional rules of logic (like the law of contradiction); these are alternatives developed to handle special cases or problems that regular logic struggles with.
    fatalism(Presented as a consequence allegedly entailed by backward causation.)
    The view that all events are fixed in advance and inevitable, such that agents cannot do otherwise than they do.
    future contingents(Łukasiewicz's three-valued logic)
    Propositions about future events whose truth-value is undetermined, such as F(x)q and F(x)~q

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    libertarian free will(Used to frame the tension between divine freedom and divine moral goodness.)
    An account of free will according to which being free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise.

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