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    Open theists like William Hasker deny infallible foreknow... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Incompatibilists deny either infallible foreknowledge or free will in the sense targeted by the argument.

    Open theists like William Hasker deny infallible foreknowledge of free acts, but this constitutes a revision of classical theism, not a refutation of the dilemma's logical structure.

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    Infallible foreknowledge(describing a quality of an all-knowing agent)
    The ability to know with absolute certainty what will happen in the future, without ever being wrong.
    Refutation of the dilemma's logical structure(what the statement says open theism does NOT do)
    Proving wrong the logical problem itself (rather than just rejecting one answer to it)—the underlying reasoning that creates the difficult choice.
    William Hasker(as the originator of the 'no-freeze' objection)
    A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in philosophy of religion and metaphysics, known for developing arguments about how God can know future events without controlling them.
    classical theism(Contrasted with process theism in the debate over human freedom)
    The theological view, represented by Aquinas, that God's will is perfectly efficacious and that divine sovereignty is compatible with human freedom through dual sufficient causation

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    free acts(Kant's compatibilist taxonomy of event types in the New Elucidation)
    Events that possess sufficient ability to withstand external forces, distinguished from necessary consequents by their degree of determining power
    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.
    open theism(Philosophy of religion; proposed solution to the divine foreknowledge and free will problem)
    The theological position that God does not have knowledge of future contingent events, either because no true propositions about such events currently exist, because such propositions cannot be known by anyone including God, or because God voluntarily refrains from knowing them to preserve human freedom.

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