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    The two forms of fatalism (theological and logical) are e... — Carmelics
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    The two forms of fatalism (theological and logical) are equivalent.

    Free Will & Foreknowledge
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    • 1.God is necessarily existent.
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    • 2.God is essentially omniscient.
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    • 1.Logical fatalism derives necessity from the timeless truth of propositions, not from any agent's knowledge or existence.
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    • 2.Theological fatalism requires an essentially omniscient being whose foreknowledge causally or constitutively fixes future events.
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    • 3.These distinct grounds of necessity generate non-equivalent modal structures: one concerns propositional logic, the other divine ontology.
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    • 1.Boethius and Aquinas held that divine eternity places God outside time, making 'foreknowledge' a category error inapplicable to logical fatalism.
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    • 2.Logical fatalism operates solely on the principle of bivalence and applies universally regardless of any being's existence.
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    • 3.If God's atemporal knowledge dissolves the 'fore' in foreknowledge, the theological and logical arguments cannot share equivalent logical form.
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