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    Challenges→The denial of future contingent truth is not sufficient to avoid the problem of theological fatalism.

    Future contingents that fail to be true for presentist reasons alone might nevertheless qualify as 'quasi-true', and the quasi-truth of God's beliefs about the future is enough to generate the problem.

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    God's omniscience(in philosophy of religion)
    The traditional religious and philosophical concept that God knows everything, including all future events—which creates a puzzle about whether humans can have free will.
    Quasi-true(in logic and philosophy of truth)
    Something that is 'sort of' or 'almost' true in a meaningful way, even if it's not completely true by normal standards.
    future contingents(Łukasiewicz's three-valued logic)
    Propositions about future events whose truth-value is undetermined, such as F(x)q and F(x)~q

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    It is not clear, however, that the denial of future contingent truth is sufficient to avoid the problem of theological fatalism. Hunt (2020) suggests that future contingents that fail to be true for presentist reasons alone might nevertheless qualify as “quasi-true” (Sider 1999, Markosian 2004), and argues that the quasi-truth of God’s beliefs about the future is enough to generate the problem. The following consideration tends in the same direction. According to the definition of infallibility used in the basic argument, if God is infallible in all his beliefs, then it is not possible that Go...

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