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    The truth of a counterfactual to the effect that if I wer... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Molinism (Middle Knowledge) is inconsistent with human free action.

    The truth of a counterfactual to the effect that if I were in circumstance C I would do A is strictly inconsistent with my refraining from A in C.

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    There are a number of objections to Middle Knowledge in the contemporary literature. Robert Adams (1991) argues that Molinism is committed to the position that the truth of a counterfactual of freedom is explanatorily prior to God’s decision to create us. But the truth of a counterfactual to the effect that if I were in circumstance C I would do A is strictly inconsistent with my refraining from A in C, and so my refraining from A in C is precluded by something prior in the order of explanation to my act in C. This is inconsistent with my acting freely in C. Climenhaga and Rubio (forthcoming) ...

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