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Quote by: Yasa 
It's simple logic. If, before an action is performed, someone has access to the future and knows what will happen, then automatically that action cannot be contingent. If it is, then the being who foresees the future may be in fault and thus is not really seeing the future.
| Its not simple logic. If a being knows A will happen as opposed to B it does not mean that B did not have the potentiality of being with out have the possibility. Free choice could very well mean that a person has the potential to do act B with out the possibility. SO, is free will about potential or actual being? It is clear that two actions A and B cannot both be (and thus cannot both be possible) yet they can both have potential being. So it is the potential being and not the possible being of two events that give an actor freedom.
"...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |