The circumstances in which one creature is placed may depend on how others choose to exercise their freedom, but the willings of those others can in turn be providentially arranged since they too fall under middle knowledge.
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.
providentially arranged(theology and metaphysics)
Organized or ordered by divine providence—meaning God has set things up in advance according to a plan.
Assuming it is a legitimate notion, middle knowledge does much to restore God’s providence in creating free creatures. Once armed with information about how such a creature would decide and act in the various circumstances in which he might be placed, God has the option of not creating the creature, or of creating him in whatever circumstances are called for by the subjunctives of freedom God wishes to be realized in the actual world. Now of course the circumstances in which one creature is placed may depend in part on how others choose to exercise their freedom. But the willings of those othe...