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The Occamist Response to the Threat From Divine Foreknowledge
A lot of the recent discussion of Occamism has sort of centered around whether there can be a good criterion for what counts as a soft fact about the past. I've discussed this extensively in a book that you did not mention called divine foreknowledge and human freedom published by E.J. Brill. It seems to me that given divine foreknowledge of future contingents, their temporal necessity just doesn't amount to very much. A fact would be hard if no matter how I chose that wouldn't affect what God would have done in the past. He would still have done certain things in the past even where I'd choose differently.