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    It is not the case that The argument for theological fatalism has more at stake than just the coherence of libertarian theism.

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    • 1.The Zeno analogy fails because theological fatalism's core tension is specifically theological: it presupposes divine personhood, omniscience, and creation.
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    • 2.Unlike Zeno's paradox, which is purely logical and domain-neutral, theological fatalism dissolves entirely if one rejects theism, making it essentially sectarian.
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    • 3.A problem that vanishes upon rejecting one metaphysical framework cannot claim the same universal philosophical stakes as a genuinely framework-independent paradox.
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    • 1.Compatibilists like Frankfurt and Dennett argue theological fatalism primarily threatens libertarian free will, not compatibilist accounts of freedom.
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    • 2.If compatibilism is true, foreknowledge poses no genuine threat to moral responsibility, reducing the argument's stakes to an internecine dispute within libertarian theism.
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    • 3.The breadth of a debate's participants does not establish the breadth of its philosophical stakes, as scholars may engage a narrow problem for independent reasons.
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    • 1.Many non-libertarians and non-theists have contributed to the debate about theological fatalism.
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    • 2.There is more at stake in Zeno's Achilles paradox than the fleetness of Achilles and the torpidity of tortoises; discovering facts about Achilles or the tortoise would not address the real issues presented by Zeno's argument.
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    • 3.The situation is arguably the same when it comes to the argument for theological fatalism.
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