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    Middle Knowledge uniquely grounds God's foreknowledge in ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The doctrine of Middle Knowledge is neither necessary nor sufficient by itself to avoid theological fatalism.

    Middle Knowledge uniquely grounds God's foreknowledge in counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, which are logically prior to God's creative decree.

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    • 1.Counterfactuals of creaturely freedom are logically independent of God's decree, making them suitable truth-makers for God's foreknowledge.
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    • 2.Middle Knowledge preserves genuine libertarian free will by grounding foreknowledge in what creatures would freely choose, not what God commands.
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    • 3.Without counterfactuals of freedom as prior truth-bearers, God's foreknowledge of free acts seems to require either determinism or logical contradiction.
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    • 1.The logical priority of counterfactuals to God's decree is obscure: it's unclear how abstract propositions about conditionals exist independently of God.
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    • 2.Middle Knowledge faces the grounding problem: what makes counterfactuals of creaturely freedom true if not God's knowledge or the actual world's facts?
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    • 3.Simpler alternatives exist: either God's timelessness dissolves the foreknowledge problem, or divine omniscience doesn't require prior truth-makers at all.
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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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