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    It is not the case that If the libertarian theory of free will is correct, an omnipotent agent (other than Plato) cannot bring about (f), but Plato can.

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    • 1.Omnipotence may be defined as the power to actualize any possible state of affairs, including those constituted by free actions of others.
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    • 2.On Molinism (Molina, Concordia 1588), God middle-knows counterfactuals of creaturely freedom and actualizes worlds containing free actions without causing them.
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    • 3.If middle knowledge is coherent, an omnipotent agent can bring about free actions by selecting the world where Plato freely performs (f), preserving both omnipotence and libertarian freedom.
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    • 1.The argument conflates two distinct senses of 'bring about': direct causation and indirect actualization through circumstance-setting.
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    • 2.Libertarian free will requires only that no agent directly determines the free action, not that no agent arranges conditions under which the action is freely performed.
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    • 3.An omnipotent agent who arranges the precise circumstances guaranteeing Plato freely does (f) thereby brings about (f) in the indirect sense, eliminating the claimed asymmetry.
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    • 1.If libertarianism about free will is correct, free actions cannot be brought about by another agent.
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    • 2.Plato, as a non-omnipotent agent, can freely bring it about that (f) obtains.
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