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    Fischer's account presupposes that God's belief-forming p... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Fischer's bootstrapping account of divine foreknowledge fails.

    Fischer's account presupposes that God's belief-forming process is reliable, but reliability itself must be grounded in something external to God's self-attestation.

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    • 1.Self-attestation cannot constitute its own warrant without circularity; external grounding is logically necessary.
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    • 2.Even divine reliability requires independent criteria to distinguish genuine reliability from mere coherent self-description.
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    • 3.If God's beliefs are justified by God's say-so alone, we cannot distinguish God from a consistent deceiver.
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    • 1.God's nature as necessarily omniscient and truthful makes external grounding of reliability metaphysically redundant.
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    • 2.The demand for external grounding commits the regress problem: what grounds the external standard's own reliability?
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    • 3.Self-attestation can be epistemically basic for God if divine nature entails truth-conduciveness in a way non-circular.
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