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    For example, God knows today that I write these thoughts,... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God's knowledge changes over time.

    For example, God knows today that I write these thoughts, but yesterday he knew not that, but rather that I was going to write them down later.

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    If anything changes, then it is not the case that all truths are eternal. God knows all truths, hence also those which are such only for today. He could not apprehend these truths yesterday, since at that time they were not truths—but there were other truths instead of them. Thus he knows, for example, that I write down these thoughts, but yesterday he knew not that, but rather that I was going to write them down later. And similarly he will know tomorrow that I have written them down. (Brentano, Philosophische Untersuchungen, English translation in Chisholm 1979: 347)

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