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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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