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    It is not the case that Once Parmenides has lectured, even an omnipotent agent cannot bring it about that (c) obtains.

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    • 1.God's eternal mode of existence places God outside of time, such that past, present, and future are equally present to the divine intellect.
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    • 2.An agent who stands outside temporal succession is not bound by the asymmetry between past and future that grounds P2.
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    • 3.Therefore, an eternalist God could actualize (c) by acting on the relevant moment from an atemporal vantage point, never confronting it as 'past'.
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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga and others distinguish between hard facts about the past and soft facts, where soft facts are only partly about the past moment.
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    • 2.The fact that Parmenides lectured without (c) obtaining may constitute a soft fact, since its modal status depends on future-directed counterfactuals.
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    • 3.If the fixity of the past applies only to hard facts, P2 does not straightforwardly entail that an omnipotent agent is barred from retroactively securing (c).
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    • 1.Prior to Parmenides's first lecture, an omnipotent agent can bring about (c).
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    • 2.No agent can have power over what is past.
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