God’s Divinely Justified Knowledge is Incompatible with Human Free Will

Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 15 (1):141-159 (2010)
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A new version of the incompatibilist argument is developed. Knowledge is justified true belief. If God’s divine knowledge must be justified knowledge, then humans cannot have the “alternative possibilities” type of free will. This incompatibilist argument is immunized against the application of the hard-soft fact distinction. If divine knowledge is justified, then the only kind of facts that God can know are hard facts, permitting this incompatibilist argument to succeed.

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