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    It is not the case that The problem of divine foreknowledge and human free will dissolves.

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    • 1.Atemporal knowledge of a future contingent act entails the necessity of that act just as much as foreknowledge does.
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    • 2.If God atemporally knows that agent S will do A, then S cannot do otherwise, regardless of whether 'before' applies.
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    • 3.Merely relocating divine knowledge outside time does not dissolve the incompatibilist entailment between infallible knowledge and necessity.
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    • 1.Boethius's solution requires that atemporal 'simultaneous' knowledge of temporal events is coherent, but this simultaneity relation is philosophically incoherent.
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    • 2.For two events to be simultaneous, they must share a temporal framework; an atemporal being cannot stand in genuine simultaneity with temporal events.
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    • 3.Without coherent simultaneity between God's atemporal perspective and our temporal acts, the Boethian dissolution loses its explanatory foundation.
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    • 1.God does not know anything beforehand but has an immediate, atemporal knowledge of all things.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge is not foreknowledge but atemporal knowledge, then the worry that God knows 'beforehand' what we will do does not arise.
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