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    Supports→The timelessness solution to the dilemma of foreknowledge and freedom is unsuccessful.

    Nelson Pike's original incompatibilist argument requires only that God's belief be fixed prior to the act; timeless fixity is equally sufficient to generate the same kind of necessity that undermines freedom.

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    Key Terms

    Fixed(as used to describe whether an action's probability is already decided)
    Already determined or settled; unable to change.
    Nelson Pike(the source being referenced)
    A 20th-century American philosopher who wrote influential work on whether God's knowledge of the future conflicts with human free will.
    Prior to(as used in philosophy)
    More fundamental or basic than; comes before in importance or logical order, not necessarily in time.
    Timeless fixity(an alternative way God's knowledge could be fixed without existing at a specific moment in time)
    The idea that something is permanently settled or determined outside of time, rather than being fixed at some point before an event occurs.
    Undermines freedom

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    (describing how necessity prevents genuine free will)
    Weakens or destroys the ability to act freely by making your actions inevitable or predetermined.
    incompatibilist argument(incompatibilists use the fixity of the past as a key reason why free will seems impossible in a determined universe)
    The philosophical argument that free will and determinism (the idea that everything is predetermined) cannot both be true at the same time.
    necessity(Auriol's modal theory of future contingents)
    The property of necessarily being the way something is; equivalent to immutability in Auriol's modal theory

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