Counterfactuals of creaturely freedom (what free agents would do in any circumstance) lack determinate truth values independent of causalfacts, making God's knowledge of them incoherent.
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The theological claim that God knows everything, including all facts past, present, and future—which raises the problem: how can God know what free people will choose if they're truly free?
Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist)
Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
counterfactuals(as used in logic and philosophy of free will (related to 'subjunctives of freedom'))
Statements about what *would* happen in situations that aren't actually happening—'if I had studied harder, I would have passed the test' is a counterfactual about a situation that didn't occur.
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.