Our foreknowledge that this illusion is the result of a technical operation - a prior surgery, so to speak - only serves to strengthen the total effect.
Of course, this presumes that the foreknowledge is correct, or at worst a good approximation!
Free-will theists cannot deny this, but neither can the adherents of simple foreknowledge deny it.
And yet the results of intervention of a certain kind are predictably bad, as they endanger a better future of which we have foreknowledge.
In contrast, in the foreknowledge formulation the leader is assumed to know precisely the random variable generated by the process.
Even so, that foreknowledge should not be seen as in any sense the cause of that which is foreknown.
In addressing these issues, it will be helpful to examine the views of some recent theistic writers who deny divine foreknowledge.
All it seems to take is the appropriate foreknowledge of the action.
