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Quote by: ryanatau  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. |
As far as my understanding of the human language goes, potential and possible are quite synonymous.
potential - Definitions from Dictionary.com demonstrates this. Please clarify the difference.
As soon as someone knows the future of an action, that actions is no longer contingent because it is not possible that it can happen another way. This is the same as saying it does not have the potential of occuring otherwise.
Note that I only defend that this is true when someone
has knowledge of the future and that before this time it would be contingent. However, this is not the case with god being an eternal omniscient being.