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    It is not the case that Frankfurt-style compatibilism cannot rescue divine freedom here because it still requires higher-order volitions that could, in principle, endorse alternatives.

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    • 1.Frankfurt-compatibilism doesn't require agents to *actually endorse* alternatives, only that they lack conflicting first-order desires—a weaker condition.
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    • 2.The ability to conceive alternatives metaphysically differs from the freedom-undermining ability to actualize them. Divine omniscience creates no libertarian threat.
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    • 3.Denying divine access to alternative actions is consistent with Frankfurt: God's unified will structure makes alternatives genuinely inaccessible to Him.
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    • 1.Higher-order volitions introduce a counterfactual dimension: even if God's second-order desires are necessary, they reference possible alternatives.
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    • 2.Frankfurt's mechanism requires the absence of unwanted alternatives, but divine omniscience means God conceives all alternatives as metaphysically possible.
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    • 3.If God's freedom requires no accessible alternatives, Frankfurt-style conditions cannot satisfy this because they logically permit alternative desires.
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