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Philosophy of religion

the argument that if God infallibly knows in advance what we will do, we cannot act otherwise and so are not free.

In philosophy of religion, divine foreknowledge and freedom refers to the argument that if God infallibly knows in advance what we will do, we cannot act otherwise and so are not free. This meaning comes from Pike (1965) in The Philosophical Review.[1]

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Pike, N. (1965). Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action. The Philosophical Review, 74(1), 27. https://doi.org/10.2307/2183529

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