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    [fullTitle] => Middle Knowledge and the Grounding Objection:A Modal Realist Solution
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This  article  aims  to  provide  a  defense  of  the  coherence  of  the  doctrine of middle knowledge against the Grounding Objection. A solution to the Grounding Objection is provided by utilising the metaphysical thesis of Modal Realism proposed by David K. Lewis (as further developed by Kris McDaniel and Philip Bricker). Utilising this metaphysical thesis will enable the  Counterfactuals  of  Creaturely  Freedom,  that  are  part  of  God’s  middle  knowledge, to have pre-volitional truthmakers, and thus, ultimately, we will have a means to finally deal with this problematic issue that has often been raised against this doctrine.

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                    [givenName] => Joshua R.
                    [affiliation] => London School of Theology
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.2021.3801
    [datePublished] => 2022-12-16
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/3801/version/1186/2973
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Middle Knowledge and the Grounding Objection:A Modal Realist Solution

Joshua R.
London School of Theology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2021.3801

Abstract

This  article  aims  to  provide  a  defense  of  the  coherence  of  the  doctrine of middle knowledge against the Grounding Objection. A solution to the Grounding Objection is provided by utilising the metaphysical thesis of Modal Realism proposed by David K. Lewis (as further developed by Kris McDaniel and Philip Bricker). Utilising this metaphysical thesis will enable the  Counterfactuals  of  Creaturely  Freedom,  that  are  part  of  God’s  middle  knowledge, to have pre-volitional truthmakers, and thus, ultimately, we will have a means to finally deal with this problematic issue that has often been raised against this doctrine.

Keywords: Middle Knowledge

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