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Why Can’t God Know Something But Not Everything?
The paper is concerned with John Martin Fischer’s Bootstrapping View of God’s foreknowledge, which is intended to reconcile God’s foreknowledge with genuine contingency of the future. We argue that this view has two major faults. Firstly, its main theses
Anna Maria Karczewska +1 more
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Christian theism has traditionally claimed that God knows the future. But why is divine foreknowledge important? In this essay, I argue that divine foreknowledge is valuable to Christian theism and that a hefty theological price must be paid if it is ...
MICHAEL ROBINSON
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‘The Hero's journey’: Narratives on the transition to motherhood with cystic fibrosis
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to explore the impact of cystic fibrosis (CF) on the transition to motherhood using a strength‐based narrative approach. It sought to elevate the voices of women with CF and examine how they navigate pregnancy and early motherhood in the context of chronic illness. Design A qualitative narrative study was conducted,
Alena J. Haines +3 more
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Foreknowledge, fate and freedom [PDF]
“Foreknowledge, Fate and Freedom” is concerned with diagnosing and debunking a pervasive and prevalent folk intuition: that a foreknown future would be problematically, and freedom-hinderingly, fixed.
Rennick, Stephanie
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ABSTRACT Energy labels help consumers understand the environmental impact of products. This drives consumer behavior. Knowing how label features are perceived can thus have important implications for design, policy, and management. Energy labels contain different design features that convey information about the range of available energy classes.
Emil Skog, Patrik Sörqvist
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Molinism, Question-Begging, and Foreknowledge of Indeterminates
John Martin Fischer’s charge that Molinism does not offer a unique answer to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be seen as a criticism of middle knowledge for begging the question of FF (foreknowledge and freedom)-compatibilism. In
Laing John D.
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Fast and Slow Signal Propagation in Abiotic Polypeptide Assemblies
Proteinoid microspheres formed by thermal polymerization of amino acids exhibit spontaneous electrical potential fluctuations without genetic material, membranes, or ion channels. Multi‐electrode recordings and electron microscopy reveal composition‐dependent voltage oscillations, long‐term drifts, and correlated signals across electrodes.
Panagiotis Mougkogiannis +1 more
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Supervaluationism and the timeless solution to the foreknowledge problem
If God knew I were going to write this paper, was I able to refrain from writing it this morning? One possible response to this question is that God's knowledge does not take place in time and therefore He does not properly fore-know.
Pablo Cobreros
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Why Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might [PDF]
It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T.R. +2 more
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AbstractMy topic is how to make decisions when you possess foreknowledge of the consequences of your choice. Many have thought that these kinds of decisions pose a distinctive and novel problem for causal decision theory (CDT). My thesis is that foreknowledge poses no new problems for CDT. Some of the purported problems are not problems.
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