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    It is not the case that William Hasker argues that no intrinsic divine cognitive state can constitute knowledge of libertarian-free future acts without an external truth-maker, a constraint Fischer's account structurally ignores.

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    • 1.God's knowledge could constitute a truth-maker itself if divine omniscience is a foundational metaphysical fact.
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    • 2.Hasker's external truth-maker requirement may conflate epistemic justification with metaphysical grounding unnecessarily.
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    • 3.Fischer's approach may handle divine knowledge through tenseless logic, bypassing the temporal constraint Hasker assumes.
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    • 1.Knowledge requires truth-makers: facts cannot be true without some basis external to the knower's mental states.
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    • 2.Libertarian freedom means future acts are genuinely open, so no intrinsic divine state can determine them before choice occurs.
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    • 3.Fischer's framework lacks this truth-maker requirement, making divine foreknowledge of free acts metaphysically ungrounded.
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