Molinist middle knowledge grounds foreknowledge in counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, providing a non-causal explanatory model that the causal account cannot adequately capture.
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Molinism(Used as a theodicy-style response to the demographic argument from nonbelief)
The view that God knows what free creatures would freely do in counterfactual situations (middle knowledge), and God uses this information in the way God governs the universe
Non-causal explanatory model(How Molinism claims to explain foreknowledge differently from other approaches)
A way of explaining how something works without saying that one thing directly causes another to happen; instead, it explains through reasons or logical relationships.
causal account(as used in philosophy of science)
An explanation that shows what actually *caused* or *made* something happen, rather than just describing it after it occurred.
counterfactuals(as used in logic and philosophy of free will (related to 'subjunctives of freedom'))
Statements about what *would* happen in situations that aren't actually happening—'if I had studied harder, I would have passed the test' is a counterfactual about a situation that didn't occur.
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.