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    Challenges→It is impossible even for an omnipotent being to make it the case that someone freely chooses to do what is right.

    Plantinga's free will defense therefore presupposes libertarianism without arguing for it, making the impossibility claim conditional on a contested metaphysical assumption, not a necessary truth.

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    Contested(the status of whether this view is correct)
    Disputed or disagreed upon; there's no consensus that it's true.
    Free Will Defense(Sometimes used narrowly to cover only evil resulting from human action, but extended by some to cover evils caused by supernatural agents other than God)
    A version of the Greater Good Defense proposing that free creatures who can care for each other and whose welfare depends on each other's freely chosen action constitute a good that requires the possibility of persons harming each other
    Libertarianism (metaphysical)(the assumption the free will defense relies on)
    The philosophical view that humans have genuine free choice—that our decisions aren't completely determined by prior causes or by God's control.
    Plantinga
    Alvin Plantinga is an American philosopher best known for his work on the philosophy of religion, particularly his arguments defending religious belief as rational and reasonable. He developed influential ideas about how people can rationally believe in God without needing scientific proof, arguing that faith and reason aren't necessarily in conflict. His work has shaped modern religious philosophy and made him one of the most important Christian philosophers of the past 50 years.

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    Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
    Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
    metaphysical assumption(metaphysics (the study of what exists))
    A belief about what fundamentally exists or what reality is really made of that you're taking for granted without proving it.
    necessary truth(Mill's empiricist reinterpretation of modal concepts)
    A proposition whose denial seems inconceivable, explained by Mill not as a metaphysical fact but as a result of psychological association making the proposition deeply ingrained.

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