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    It is not the case that A timeless being can know all tenseless B-series facts (e.g., 'event E is at t₁') without knowing indexical 'what time is it now' facts.

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    • 1.If a being truly knows all facts, it must know that *this moment is happening*—a fact no tenseless description captures, making the claim incoherent.
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    • 2.An omniscient being must know what every conscious creature knows, including their immediate 'now'-experience; excluding this seems to contradict omniscience.
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    • 3.Indexical truths (like 'I am presently existing') are facts about the world, not merely subjective perspectives; timelessness cannot explain their epistemic unavailability.
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    • 1.Tenseless facts describe objective relations between events and coordinates; indexical facts describe the speaker's subjective temporal location.
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    • 2.A timeless being lacks temporal location, so 'now' is undefined for it; this explains why it cannot know indexical facts despite omniscience.
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    • 3.Complete knowledge of B-series facts plus facts about which events observers occupy exhausts all factual content—indexicals add no new objective information.
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