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    Challenges→Essential omniscience entails infallibility.

    A being could essentially know all true propositions yet form beliefs through fallible cognitive processes that happen to be unfailingly corrected, making infallibility contingent, not essential.

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    Cognitive processes(philosophy of mind)
    The mental activities happening in your brain when you think, remember, or reason through something.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    essentially(describing what makes God inherently God)
    As a fundamental, unchangeable part of what something is—if something is essential to God, it's always been and always will be part of God's nature.
    fallible(Applied to individual, group, and asymptotic group judgments under Possible Underdetermination)
    Incorrect with non-zero probability.
    infallibility(Used by Mill to characterize the epistemic error made by those who would suppress beliefs they take to be false or harmful)

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    modal(in logic and metaphysics)
    Dealing with possibility and necessity—questions about what could be true, what must be true, and what's merely contingent (could go either way).
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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