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    It is not the case that Most prophecies do not render the prophesied actions unfree because most prophecies are conditional or vague, leaving room for different ways in which they might be fulfilled.

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    • 1.A prophecy that is fulfilled in only one way—however vaguely stated—was always going to be fulfilled in exactly that way, given divine foreknowledge.
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    • 2.Vagueness in the linguistic formulation of a prophecy does not eliminate the metaphysical determinacy of the foreknown outcome.
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    • 3.If God infallibly foreknows which specific action will fulfill the prophecy, the agent's freedom to do otherwise is undermined regardless of how the prophecy is worded.
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    • 1.Boethius's solution to divine foreknowledge grants God timeless knowledge of the actual choice made, not merely of a range of possible choices.
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    • 2.If divine foreknowledge tracks the actual future event rather than a disjunction of possibilities, then even an unconditional prophecy based on that knowledge fixes one outcome.
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    • 3.The apparent openness created by conditional or vague prophecies is therefore an epistemic feature for human observers, not an ontological feature of the agent's freedom.
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    • 1.Most prophecies are conditional or vague.
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    • 2.Conditional or vague prophecies leave room for different ways in which they might be fulfilled.
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