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    It is not the case that If God atemporally knows that agent S will do A, then S cannot do otherwise, regardless of whether 'before' applies.

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    • 1.Atemporality means God's knowledge exists outside time, so it cannot causally constrain temporal agents' choices.
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    • 2.Logical necessity (truth-value fixity) differs from causal necessity; knowing what will happen doesn't make it unfree.
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    • 3.S's ability to do otherwise can be compatible with God knowing S won't, if free will requires only absence of coercion.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Atemporally knowing X means possessing infallible knowledge of X's truth value independently of temporal sequence.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge is infallible, then what God knows cannot fail to obtain without God being wrong.
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    • 3.An agent doing otherwise would make God's knowledge false, which contradicts infallibility, so otherwise is impossible.
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