RE: How Free Will and Omniscience Works
September 3, 2012 at 3:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 3:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 3, 2012 at 3:27 pm)idunno Wrote: Rythm, I'm going to be honest here. You're on my ignore list because of the responses I've seen come from you. However, your name keeps popping up after mine so I'll answer this question and offer you the opportunity to once again place yourself in my good graces
No, I don't see how God's foreknowledge could err.
Who asked you anything about a god? So, these predictions are always accurate, at what point might you be able to "choose" B - instead of the expected A? I asked why, how, not what you believed. You said that foreknowledge did not seem to you to rule out free will, I'm just looking for an example of foreknowledge that is in error. Some prediction that we could choose to nullify - and then you tell me that there aren't any?
Put me back on the list (it'll save you the trouble of responding to me).
(September 3, 2012 at 3:27 pm)IATIA Wrote: Let us try this.
If I know that you know that I will pick the orange over the apple, then I can pick the apple and invalidate your "all-knowing" power.
Then I wasn't actually precognitive was I, since I didn't see that coming.
Quote:As to the 'median crossing', based on history, the fact that you are here, you do not have the propensity to drive headlong into traffic and I can say that you will not do this the next time you get on the road.Oh, you mean guessing..not knowing..but guessing.
Quote: However, now that you know i know, you could prove me wrong and drive across the median.
Could I? You haven't explained how I could do so (except, perhaps, by means of explaining that you are not precognitive).
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