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    Challenges→You will not perform any future act freely.

    If God's 'foreknowledge' is not genuinely prior in time to your act, then the inference from the necessity of the past to the necessity of your act has no temporal past to be fixed.

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    Foreknowledge(Boethius's distinction between knowing and foreknowing)
    Knowledge of future events prior to their occurrence, distinguished from mere knowledge in that it implies temporal priority and thus raises the question of whether the future is already fixed
    Necessity of your act(used to discuss whether human beings have free choice or whether their actions are determined)
    The claim that your action had to happen—that you couldn't have chosen or acted differently.
    Prior in time(used to ask whether God's knowledge comes before or at the same moment as human actions)
    Happening or existing before something else in a sequence of moments.
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known

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    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.
    modal(in logic and metaphysics)
    Dealing with possibility and necessity—questions about what could be true, what must be true, and what's merely contingent (could go either way).
    necessity of the past(Used to argue that foreknown future events are similarly unalterable)
    Once a state of affairs has obtained, it is unalterably or necessarily the case that it did occur

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