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    Challenges→The doctrine of Middle Knowledge is neither necessary nor sufficient by itself to avoid theological fatalism.

    If Middle Knowledge explains why truths about free acts are not accidentally necessary relative to agents, then the apparent need for additional solutions dissolves from within the Molinist framework itself.

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    Accidentally necessary(describing a type of necessity that Middle Knowledge addresses)
    Something that had to happen, but only because of circumstances—not because it's logically impossible for it to be otherwise.
    Luis de Molina(the philosopher behind Molinism)
    A 16th-century Spanish Jesuit theologian who developed Middle Knowledge as a solution to the problem of reconciling God's all-knowing nature with human free choice.
    Middle knowledge(Core component of Molinism, as described in Marsh's reply to Maitzen)
    God's knowledge of what free creatures would freely do in counterfactual situations
    Molinist framework(the broader system being discussed)
    A philosophical and theological system built around Molina's ideas about how God's knowledge and human free will can both exist without contradiction.

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    Relative to agents(specifying whose perspective or control matters)
    Dependent on or connected to the person who is making a choice or taking an action.
    free acts(Kant's compatibilist taxonomy of event types in the New Elucidation)
    Events that possess sufficient ability to withstand external forces, distinguished from necessary consequents by their degree of determining power
    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.

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