Boethius points out in effect that if a human knows infallibly that you will do x tomorrow, e.g, be the prime minister or not, e.g that you will eat nachos well then it is at least restrictedly necessary that you will do x. So at least you will do x in every world that has our physical laws and where the state of the universe is as it actually is today. Such necessity would preclude freedom. If I know now based on physical law and on the current state of the universe, that you will eat nachos tomorrow, then it is plausible, putting compatibilism to one side, that you wont eat the nachos freely.
'wk6' readings, Porphry "the pfive pr[something]
Boethius "the deeper question"
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