Foreknowledge and Free Will
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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This theological fatalist argument creates a dilemma for anyone who thinks it important to maintain both (1) that there is a deity who infallibly knows the entire future, and that (2) human beings have free will in the strong sense usually called libertarian.
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