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    Middle knowledge does much to restore God's providence in... — Carmelics
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    Middle knowledge does much to restore God's providence in creating free creatures.

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    • 1.Once armed with information about how a creature would decide and act in various circumstances, God has the option of not creating the creature, or of creating him in whatever circumstances are called for by the subjunctives of freedom God wishes to be realized in the actual world.
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    • 2.The circumstances in which one creature is placed may depend on how others choose to exercise their freedom, but the willings of those others can in turn be providentially arranged since they too fall under middle knowledge.
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    • 3.In principle, nothing need occur in the actual world that does not have God's prior recognition and consent.
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    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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    SEP: providence-divine
    Discussion of middle knowledge and providence
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    Assuming it is a legitimate notion, middle knowledge does much to restore God’s providence in creating free creatures. Once armed with information about how such a creature would decide and act in the various circumstances in which he might be placed, God has the option of not creating the creature, or of creating him in whatever circumstances are called for by the subjunctives of freedom God wishes to be realized in the actual world. Now of course the circumstances in which one creature is placed may depend in part on how others choose to exercise their freedom. But the willings of those othe...
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    Validity: The premises accurately reflect the passage's reasoning that middle knowledge enables God to arrange creatures and circumstances based on knowledge of counterfactuals of freedom, leading to the conclusion that this restores God's providence, and this argument is explicitly present in the source passage.

    Confidence: Clearly stated main argument of the passage.

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