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The impossibility of middle knowledge

Philosophical Studies, 1992
T. O'Connor
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A Refutation of Middle Knowledge

Noûs, 1986
The theological doctrine of middle knowledge attributes to God a particular kind of knowledge concerning the future, knowledge which would be denied to God by theists who do not hold this doctrine. Consider the case of Elizabeth, a graduate student in anthropology.
W. Hasker
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Characterising HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes in the Middle East and North Africa: Systematic review and data synthesis

Global Public Health, 2020
This article reviews HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes in various population groups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and highlights their relevance to HIV epidemiology and the design and implementation of preventions and treatment efforts ...
Laith Abu-Raddad, Ghina Mumtaz, Nahla Hilmi   +2 more
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Middle Knowledge and the Doctrine of Infallibility

Philosophical Perspectives, 1991
The thesis that God possesses middle knowledge has become a renewed point of dispute in recent discussions in the philosophy of religion. Originally promulgated in an explicit fashion by the 16th century Spanish theologian Luis de Molina, the claim at issue is that there are contingent propositions which are such that God has absolutely no control over
T. P. Flint
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Conditionals of Freedom and Middle Knowledge

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1993
The doctrine of middle knowledge was developed by the Spanish Jesuits Luis de Molina and Francisco Suarez in the late sixteenth century, and immediately became the subject of fierce controversy, being bitterly opposed by the Dominicans, especially Domingo Bafiez and Diego Alvarez, and requiring the intervention of the Vatican (in 1607) to cause the ...
R. Gaskin
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On Middle Knowledge

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1994
L'A. souligne la faiblesse de l'argument de R. Gaskin, developpe dans le numero precedent du «Philosophical Quarterly» (n°43, pp. 412-430), contre la premiere des quatre objections opposees a la theorie de la prescience de Dieu, selon laquelle il n'existe pas de propositions conditionnelles vraies en faveur de la liberte des creatures, qui choisissent ...
Hugh Rice
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A defense of middle knowledge

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1987
Adams has not demonstrated that conditionals of freedom are necessarily false, just as I have not demonstrated that they are possibly true. According to Adams, we have good reason to think that they are not possibly true because we do not know what it is for them to be true.
Richard Otte
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Middle knowledge and evil

The History of Evil From the Mid-Twentieth Century to Today, 2018
E. Wierenga
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Middle knowledge and Christian exclusivism

Sophia, 1995
Il y a deja plusieurs annees, l'A. avait defendu une proposition qui consistait a affirmer l'exclusivite du salut a travers le Christ. Pour lui, cette perspective sur le probleme soteriologique du mal apporte une solution feconde au sujet de l'exclusivisme chretien.
W. Craig
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Prophecy, Freedom and Middle Knowledge

1992
The Molinist notion of middle knowledge has been much discussed in recent days.1 Though a great deal of attention has been paid to the question whether or not God possesses such knowledge, relatively little has been given to asking precisely how such knowledge would be of assistance to God in his providential activity.2 One area in which one might ...
T. P. Flint
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