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    Challenges→Most prophecies do not render the prophesied actions unfree because most prophecies are conditional or vague, leaving room for different ways in which they might be fulfilled.

    The apparent openness created by conditional or vague prophecies is therefore an epistemic feature for human observers, not an ontological feature of the agent's freedom.

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    • 1.Knowledge of future events needn't constrain present choices if the knower lacks causal influence over those events.
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    • 2.Humans cannot access God's complete knowledge, so vague prophecies preserve our epistemic position as genuinely open.
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    • 3.A being's freedom depends on whether their choices determine outcomes, not on whether another being knows those choices.
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    • 1.If reality itself contains determinate facts about future free choices, then those facts exist regardless of epistemic access.
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    • 2.Distinguishing epistemic from ontological openness assumes facts can be determinate yet unknowable—a philosophically contentious claim.
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    • 3.Human freedom requires that future outcomes genuinely depend on present choices, not merely that we perceive them as open.
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