Restating the Paradox

[snowden719]

ZeeJustin, it seems that your paradox rests on the unsaid premise

1) Free Will means that in any particular situation in which an agent chooses freely, he could have done otherwise

I think that if we take a compatabilist approach to free will we can say that your 3 premises are true but free will exists because the agent is the causal factor in the choice being made. For example, imagine a person trying to exit a room with 3 doors, the person chooses the door in the middle, but unbeknownst to him the other 2 doors are locked and the only way out is the middle door. To any outside observer that knew you would attempt to leave the room they could predict that you would use the middle door, but the fact that they knew but weren't a causal factor in your decision to do so means that your actions were in fact still free.