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    Challenges→Facts about Ernie's creation by a goddess with foreknowledge and intentions about his future are not relevant differences between Ernie and Bert.

    Divine foreknowledge paired with intentional creation constitutes a stronger manipulation condition than mere causal determinism, since it involves a designing agent with propositional attitudes about outcomes.

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    Causal determinism(Metaphysics / philosophy of causation)
    The theory that present and future events are determined causally by their antecedents, rooted in the principle that all events have a sufficient cause that determines them. It excludes uncaused events but permits logically possible alternatives that are merely incompatible with the actual causal chain.
    Designing agent(metaphysics and philosophy of action)
    A conscious being (like God or a person) who deliberately creates or plans something with a specific purpose in mind.
    Intentional creation(theology and metaphysics)
    When something is made on purpose by a conscious being who planned it out, rather than happening by accident.
    Manipulation condition(free will and philosophy of action)
    A set of circumstances where one thing or person is being controlled or influenced by another in a way that removes freedom or choice.

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    divine foreknowledge(Christian theological tradition)
    God's knowledge of the future choices to be made by men and women
    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.
    propositional attitudes(Fodor's 1980 reply to Searle)
    Mental states characteristic of an organism that has a brain, such as beliefs and desires, which computational symbol manipulation alone is insufficient to produce.

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