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    It is not the case that Linda Zagzebski's Ockhamist tradition distinguishes 'hard' facts about the past from 'soft' facts that are only accidentally about the past, undermining the premise that foreknowledge is strictly fixed.

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    • 1.If God's belief yesterday was true, then what God believed was a fact—hard or soft. That fact existed and was real before my choice.
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    • 2.Calling foreknowledge-facts 'soft' merely relabels the problem rather than solving it; the fixity problem recurs at the metaphysical level.
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    • 3.The hard/soft distinction lacks clear criteria: indexing beliefs to times makes them time-dependent, but truth-values don't retroactively change.
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    • 1.Soft facts (e.g., 'God believed yesterday that I'd choose X') depend on present choices, so they're not causally fixed before the choice occurs.
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    • 2.Divine foreknowledge of soft facts preserves human libertarian freedom because the facts themselves are not settled until the agent acts.
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    • 3.The hard/soft distinction respects intuitive asymmetries: past events are fixed, but past beliefs about future contingents needn't be.
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