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    Alvin Plantinga's own middle knowledge framework (Molinis... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Not even God can cause a person to freely do what is right.

    Alvin Plantinga's own middle knowledge framework (Molinism) holds that God knows counterfactuals of creaturely freedom prior to creation.

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    • 1.Molinism preserves human libertarian freedom by distinguishing God's knowledge from causal determination of choices.
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    • 2.Counterfactuals of creaturely freedom are truth-apt propositions that God's omniscience must encompass to be truly complete.
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    • 3.Middle knowledge solves the theological problem of reconciling divine foreknowledge with genuine human freedom better than alternatives.
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    • 1.It's unclear what grounds the truth of counterfactuals about free choices prior to the agents' existence or decision-making context.
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    • 2.Molinism may still face a version of the grounding objection: what makes 'If Smith were in circumstance C, he'd freely choose X' true?
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    • 3.The framework arguably adds unnecessary metaphysical machinery without empirically testable benefits over simpler theological models.
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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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