Foreknowledge and Free Will
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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The because-relationship in question is stronger than counterfactual dependence, because it can be absent even when counterfactual dependence is present, as in the case of divine foreknowledge.
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