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    For any future act you will perform, if some being infall... — Carmelics
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    For any future act you will perform, if some being infallibly believed in the past that the act would occur, there is nothing you can do now about the fact that he believed what he believed, since nobody has any control over past events.

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    Infallibly believed(as used in the statement about past knowledge)
    Believed something with absolute certainty and without any possibility of being wrong.
    Modal logic(logic)
    A system of logic that deals with concepts like possibility, necessity, and what could or must be true.
    determinism(Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
    A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')

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    For any future act you will perform, if some being infallibly believed in the past that the act would occur, there is nothing you can do now about the fact that he believed what he believed since nobody has any control over past events; nor can you make him mistaken in his belief, given that he is infallible. Therefore, there is nothing you can do now about the fact that he believed in a way that cannot be mistaken that you would do what you will do. But if so, you cannot do otherwise than what he believed you would do. And if you cannot do otherwise, you will not perform the act freely.

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