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    It is not the case that The fortune teller's predictive accuracy can be explained without appealing to knowledge of the player's future choice.

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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga's 'middle knowledge' framework holds that God's foreknowledge of free acts cannot be grounded solely in causal-historical facts about agents.
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    • 2.If accurate prediction of genuinely free choices requires knowledge of counterfactuals of freedom, then present behavioral data is insufficient to ground such predictions.
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    • 3.The fortune teller's systematic accuracy over genuinely open futures thus implies access to something beyond present-state causal inference.
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    • 1.Peter van Inwagen argues that in indeterministic contexts, no amount of prior physical information logically entails a specific future choice.
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    • 2.If the fortune teller's predictions track choices that are not determined by past or present states, then explanatory appeal to behavioral data faces a logical gap, not merely an epistemic one.
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    • 1.Compatibilism holds that free will is compatible with deterministic prediction.
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    • 2.The fortune teller can predict the player's choice based solely on relevant knowledge of the player's past or present behavior or state of mind.
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