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    Essential omniscience entails infallibility. — Carmelics
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    Essential omniscience entails infallibility.

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    • A being who could not possibly fail to be omniscient could not possibly be mistaken.
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    • 1.A being can be essentially omniscient (knowing all truths) while still holding some beliefs that are contingently false about non-truth-apt propositions.
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    • 2.Infallibility requires that no belief can be false, but omniscience is defined over truths, leaving open the status of beliefs about undefined or indeterminate propositions.
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    • 3.Therefore, essential omniscience and infallibility have distinct scopes, and the former does not logically entail the latter.
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    • 1.William Alston and others distinguish between propositional knowledge and doxastic infallibility, arguing these are separable cognitive properties.
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    • 2.A being could essentially know all true propositions yet form beliefs through fallible cognitive processes that happen to be unfailingly corrected, making infallibility contingent, not essential.
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    A related idea emerges from the suggestion that not only does a perfect being exist necessarily, but it has its various great-making properties of necessity. The suggestion is that a being worthy of worship should not “possess its various excellences in some merely adventitious manner” (Findlay 1948: 180). In that case, another feature of divine knowledge, if God exists necessarily, is being essentially omniscient, that is, being omniscient and not possibly lacking omniscience. Essential omniscience entails infallibility—a being who could not possibly fail to be omniscient could not possibly b...

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