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    It is not the case that Essential omniscience entails infallibility.

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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 being who could not possibly fail to be omniscient could not possibly be mistaken.
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