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If both Molinism and standard compatibilism share this pr... — Carmelics

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Challenges→Molinism is distinct from other compatibilist solutions regarding foreknowledge and freedom.

If both Molinism and standard compatibilism share this problematic presupposition, the purported distinctness is a difference in degree of theological elaboration, not kind.

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1.Both Molinism and compatibilism accept that human freedom is compatible with divine omniscience or predetermination.
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2.Neither view fundamentally resolves the tension between libertarian freedom and exhaustive divine foreknowledge.
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3.Their disagreement concerns only how to elaborate this shared framework theologically, not its core structure.
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1.Molinism's middle knowledge is metaphysically distinct from compatibilism's rejection of libertarian freedom requirements.
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2.The two systems make fundamentally different claims about counterfactuals and causal mechanisms, not merely elaborations.
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3.Degree-of-elaboration differences can still constitute kind-differences when underlying metaphysics diverge significantly.
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Neither view fundamentally resolves the tension between libertarian freedom and ...The two systems make fundamentally different claims about counterfactuals and ca...Their disagreement concerns only how to elaborate this shared framework theologi...

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