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    You will not perform any future act freely. — Carmelics
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    You will not perform any future act freely.

    Free Will & Foreknowledge
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    • 1.For any future act you will perform, if some being infallibly believed in the past that the act would occur, there is nothing you can do now about the fact that he believed what he believed, since nobody has any control over past events.
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    • 2.You cannot make him mistaken in his belief, given that he is infallible.
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    • 3.Therefore, there is nothing you can do now about the fact that he believed in a way that cannot be mistaken that you would do what you will do.
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    • 1.The ability to 'do otherwise' should be analyzed in terms of what would have been believed had you chosen differently, not what was in fact believed.
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    • 2.If God's foreknowledge is counterfactually dependent on your choices, then His past belief tracks your future freedom rather than undermining it.
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    • 3.Therefore, the fixity of the past is compatible with freedom, because the relevant past belief would itself have been different had your free choice been different.
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    • 1.God exists outside of time in an eternal present, perceiving all events simultaneously rather than believing propositions about the future from within time.
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    • 2.If God's 'foreknowledge' is not genuinely prior in time to your act, then the inference from the necessity of the past to the necessity of your act has no temporal past to be fixed.
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    • 3.Boethius, Aquinas, and Anselm each argued on this basis that divine eternity dissolves the incompatibilist tension between foreknowledge and free will.
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    For any future act you will perform, if some being infallibly believed in the past that the act would occur, there is nothing you can do now about the fact that he believed what he believed since nobody has any control over past events; nor can you make him mistaken in his belief, given that he is infallible. Therefore, there is nothing you can do now about the fact that he believed in a way that cannot be mistaken that you would do what you will do. But if so, you cannot do otherwise than what he believed you would do. And if you cannot do otherwise, you will not perform the act freely.
    Extraction notes

    Validity: The extracted argument faithfully captures the chain of reasoning in the source passage, with premises 1 and 2 supporting intermediate conclusion 3, which combines with premise 4 to yield that you cannot do otherwise, and premise 5 then yields the final conclusion that you will not perform the act freely.

    Confidence: High confidence. This is a clearly structured multi-step argument explicitly laid out in the text.

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