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    Supports→It is hard to maintain that God's belief that T is infallible (as claimed in premise (1)).

    Divine beliefs formed through timeless eternal cognition, as Boethius and Aquinas argue, track contingent truths with necessity because eternity encompasses all temporal possibilities simultaneously.

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    Aquinas
    Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian priest and philosopher (1225-1274) who became one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He attempted to show that Christian faith and human reason are compatible, arguing that we can use logic and observation to understand God and the natural world. His ideas deeply shaped Catholic theology and continue to influence how religious and secular institutions think about ethics, knowledge, and the relationship between science and belief.
    Boethius
    Boethius was a Roman philosopher and politician who lived around 480-524 CE and is famous for bridging ancient Greek and Roman knowledge with the medieval world. He wrote influential works on logic, mathematics, and theology, and is best known for his book "The Consolation of Philosophy," written while imprisoned before his execution. His writings helped preserve classical learning during the Middle Ages and shaped how Europeans understood logic and philosophy for centuries.
    Divine beliefs(the subject of what the statement is discussing)
    The knowledge or thoughts that God has about the world and everything in it.
    Eternal cognition

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    (the mechanism by which divine beliefs are formed)
    God's way of knowing things—not limited by time like human thinking, but existing outside of time altogether.
    Eternity(how God's knowledge encompasses temporal possibilities)
    In this philosophical context, not just endless time, but a state of existing completely outside of time—all moments happening at once from God's perspective.
    Temporal possibilities(what eternity is said to encompass simultaneously)
    All the different ways things could happen or turn out within time—the open future from a human perspective.
    contingent truths(Contrasted with the modal collapse implied by sσ ⊃• □•sσ)
    Truths that are not necessarily determined; truths that could have been otherwise
    necessity(Auriol's modal theory of future contingents)
    The property of necessarily being the way something is; equivalent to immutability in Auriol's modal theory

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