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    After God has revealed a future contingency, it is necess... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A true prophecy about the contingent future could have been false, even though the past existence of the prophecy is necessary after the fact.

    After God has revealed a future contingency, it is necessary that the physical or mental things God used to reveal it have existed, but the content revealed is not itself necessary.

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    Content revealed(as contrasted with the physical means of revelation)
    The actual information or message that is being communicated, as opposed to the medium or method used to communicate it.
    Contingency(as a value Leibniz wanted to preserve)
    The quality of something being possible but not necessary—it could be different than it is, or might not happen at all.
    Future contingency

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    (Used to identify propositions for which the second broad assumption fails)
    A proposition about the future whose truth value is ½ or 'indeterminate'
    God(Classical theism; used to fix the referent of 'G' in the Bayesian formulation)
    An eternal, personal being of maximal power, knowledge, and goodness who created the universe
    Necessary(ontological distinction in Mulla Sadra's metaphysics)
    The principle, God; pure existence without essence, quality or property that undergoes change or motion
    Physical or mental things(as used in this statement about how God communicates)
    Objects or processes that exist in the material world (physical) or in the mind or consciousness (mental), like words, visions, or thoughts.
    Revealed(as used in theology)
    Made known or communicated, often by a divine being sharing information with humans through signs, visions, or other means.

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    William Ockham (c.1285–1347), a highly influential Christian philosopher and theologian from the medieval period, suggested an interesting way of accounting for God’s knowledge of the contingent future and resolving the problem of prophecy. (For more detailed presentations of Ockham’s views, see the introduction to Ockham 1983 by Adams and the introduction to Molina 1988 by Freddoso.) Ockham claims that what a prophet has truly revealed about the contingent future “could have been and can be fa

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