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    It is not the case that If God's past belief about a future free act is a soft fact ontologically dependent on that future act, the fixity-of-the-past premise in the fatalist argument is false, not merely challenged.

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    • 1.Even if God's belief is soft, God's actually holding that belief remains a hard fact about the past that constrains present freedom.
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    • 2.Dependency on future acts doesn't eliminate fixity; what was true yesterday (that God believed X) remains unchangeably true today.
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    • 3.The fixity premise concerns whether past facts are modally fixed, not whether they're ontologically dependent—these are separate issues.
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    • 1.Soft facts are ontologically dependent on present or future states, not intrinsically fixed independent of what happens later.
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    • 2.If God's belief is soft and depends on the future act, then the past state (the belief) is not genuinely fixed prior to that act.
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    • 3.The fatalist argument requires all past facts to be hard facts; soft facts undermine the fixity premise that drives the argument.
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