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    Challenges→Parallel replies to the objection from present-time knowledge and the objection from first-person knowledge are not surprising.

    An essentially omniscient being outside time faces a stronger explanatory burden for first-person knowledge than for present-tense knowledge, since atemporality removes the latter problem but not the former.

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    Key Terms

    Atemporality / Outside time(as used in metaphysics)
    Existing or existing in a way that is not bound by time; not experiencing moments passing one after another like we do.
    Explanatory burden(the philosophical problem being discussed)
    The responsibility to explain or justify something—if you move a problem from one place to another without really solving it, you've just relocated the explanatory burden.
    First-person knowledge(epistemology)
    Knowledge based on your own direct experience or perspective, like knowing how you feel or what you saw yourself.
    Omniscient(describing God's knowledge)
    Knowing everything—all facts, all truths, and all events (past, present, and future).
    Present-tense knowledge

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    Knowledge of what is happening right now, in the current moment.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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