Edwards on the incompatibility of devine foreknowledge and human free will
Strong argument for theological fatalism in the book "Freedom of the Will" written by J. Edwards. Discussion between Fatalists and Anti-Fatalists in the 20th century in the context ofthe most powerful argument for fatalism, introduced by Nelson Pike.
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It has also been demonstrated that the argument of Edwards has many false instances and contradicts the Brouwerian principle (if something exists, it is necessarily possible). Of course, the question of whether we should accept the universal validity of BP is debatable.
Nevertheless, the statement „If it is not the case that ~A and God, therefore, does not know that ~A, then it is impossible that God could have had a knowledge that ~A” seems to be contradictory and unacceptable. Thus, fatalists must somehow explain this contradiction. For instance, fatalists can reject (42). But it would mean that ~A, and it is possible that God knows A. Since God is omniscient being, it would follow that KgA entails T(A), and, as a result, KgA would entail ~A&A - contradiction! Hence, it seems that the fatalism of Edwards has many false instances and thus is not valid.
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