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dsgrue3 said:

You are misunderstanding what foreknowledge is. Foreknowledge isn't going to time t to witness a particular decision then moving back to a time prior to t to wait for it. It's knowing before witnessing the decision.

You have not made any decisions at time 0, but an omniscient being already knows every outcome. <- this is foreknowledge.

I believe we're both correct, my mistake. Foreknowledge is a word that simply means to known in advance. Whether the actions can be predetermined (your scenario) or not (the one I presented), in both cases the being has foreknowledge.

The question remains, how is it possible for something that can't be predetermined be foreknown? Simply by virtue of being unbound by time. If I know something before it happened, because I was also there when it happened, then I have foreknowledge.

@prof. Not really. Think about it.