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    It is not the case that On Ockhamist grounds, God's timeless belief about T is a 'soft fact' whose content is counterfactually dependent on what we freely do.

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    • 1.Soft facts about God's timeless beliefs seem incoherent: timelessness means no temporal dependency, yet soft facts require it.
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    • 2.Grounding counterfactual dependence without circularity is difficult; it's unclear what makes God's belief depend on free acts.
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    • 3.Ockham's parsimony doesn't justify ontological claims about God's nature; metaphysical structure may require brute modal facts.
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    • 1.Ockham's razor favors ontologies minimizing brute facts; soft facts reduce primitive modal facts about God's knowledge.
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    • 2.If God's beliefs were hard facts independent of creaturely choices, divine foreknowledge would entail logical fatalism.
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    • 3.Counterfactual dependence preserves human freedom while maintaining God's omniscience without adding unexplained necessities.
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