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    It is not the case that If there is a being who infallibly knows everything that will happen in the future, no human being has any control over the future.

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    • 1.Boethius and Aquinas argue God exists in eternal simultaneity, perceiving all of time at once rather than foreknowing it sequentially.
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    • 2.An eternal being's timeless knowledge of an act no more removes its freedom than a present observer's witnessing removes the freedom of an act seen now.
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    • 3.If simultaneous knowledge of a free act does not eliminate freedom, then God's atemporal 'foreknowledge' poses no special threat to human control.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.God's knowledge of future acts may be grounded in those acts themselves, meaning the acts cause the foreknowledge, not vice versa.
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    • 2.If foreknowledge is causally downstream of free acts, the agent retains control over both the act and the fact of its being foreknown.
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    • The argument showing that an infallibly foreknown act is not under the agent's control can be applied to any infallibly foreknown act of any human being.
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