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    Supports→Fischer's bootstrapping account of divine foreknowledge fails.

    Fischer's bootstrapping generates only de se knowledge of God's own reliability, which cannot bridge the logical gap to de re knowledge of specific future contingent actions by free agents.

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    Contingent actions(actions by free agents)
    Actions that might or might not happen—things that aren't forced to occur and could go different ways depending on choices and circumstances.
    De re knowledge(knowledge of specific future actions)
    Knowledge about specific things or people in the world—like knowing 'that person will arrive late' rather than just general rules about how people behave.
    De se knowledge(knowledge of God's own reliability)
    Knowledge about yourself from your own perspective—like knowing 'I am hungry' rather than just knowing facts about the world in general.
    Fischer(philosopher reference)
    John Martin Fischer, an American philosopher known for his work on free will and moral responsibility, especially regarding how God's knowledge relates to human freedom.

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    Free agents(who perform contingent actions)
    People who have the ability to make genuine choices and aren't completely controlled by forces outside their control.
    Logical gap(as used in logic)
    A break or disconnect in reasoning where a conclusion doesn't necessarily follow from the premises that come before it.
    bootstrapping(Pattern discovery in knowledge extraction)
    A method of expanding an initial set of extraction patterns or hypotheses by using known examples to discover new ones
    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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