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    It is not the case that You will not perform any future act freely.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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