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    Challenges→If God's certainty derives from self-knowledge of infallibility rather than direct acquaintance with the future act, the act's freedom is undermined because its occurrence is explanatorily posterior to God's certain belief.

    The agent's own deliberative process, not God's belief about it, is what determines whether an act is free. God's certainty can supervene on the agent's free choice without undermining it.

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    Key Terms

    Deliberative process(as the thinking process of an agent making a choice)
    The mental work you do when you think through a decision—weighing options, considering reasons, and deciding what to do.
    Supervene(philosophy of mind)
    When one thing depends entirely on another thing, so that if the underlying thing stays exactly the same, the dependent thing can't change. Think of how a cake's sweetness supervenes on its ingredients—change the ingredients, and the sweetness changes.
    Undermine(as used in logic and argumentation)
    To weaken or damage something, making it less effective or unable to work properly.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor

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    free will(Kant's practical resolution of the third antinomy)
    An exemption from the laws of nature; the power of doing and forbearing

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