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    It is not the case that A omniscient being need not know truths via set-membership but through direct, non-propositional acquaintance with reality as a whole.

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    • 1.Without propositional structure, there is no way to distinguish knowing P from knowing not-P, making 'direct acquaintance' epistemically empty.
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    • 2.The claim conflates subjective phenomenal experience with objective knowledge; feeling unified with reality differs from knowing specific facts about it.
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    • 3.Omniscience standardly means knowing all truths. Rejecting propositional knowledge makes the notion of 'all truths' incoherent or undefined.
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    • 1.Propositional knowledge requires linguistic structure that may artificially fragment reality into subject-predicate form, missing holistic understanding.
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    • 2.Mystical traditions report direct experiential knowledge of totality that transcends conceptual decomposition, suggesting non-propositional modes are possible.
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    • 3.An omniscient being unbounded by human cognitive architecture need not depend on the propositional method we require to organize knowledge.
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