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    God can know what is contingently 'going to' happen based... — Carmelics
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    God can know what is contingently 'going to' happen based on the present tendency of things.

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    • All that is required for such knowledge is exhaustive knowledge of the present.
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    • 1.Genuine contingency entails that present tendencies are compatible with multiple possible futures, none of which is determined by current states.
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    • 2.Knowledge of a genuinely open future requires more than present states; it requires privileged access to which possibility will be actualized.
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    • 3.Therefore, exhaustive present-state knowledge cannot yield determinate foreknowledge of contingent events without collapsing contingency into necessity.
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    • 1.Aristotle's sea-battle argument establishes that propositions about future contingents lack a determinate truth value prior to their occurrence.
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    • 2.If future contingent propositions are neither true nor false now, there is no present fact — however exhaustively known — that constitutes their truth-maker.
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    • 3.A knower, even omniscient regarding present tendencies, cannot know as true what is not yet determinately true.
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    It is relatively easy to see how God can know what is (contingently) “going to” happen if this refers to the present tendency of things. All it takes is exhaustive knowledge of the present. But what is “going to” happen can change, as the present tendency of things changes, and what God foreknows on this basis (his knowledge of what is going to happen) will change along with this change in present tendencies. This “mutable future” position, defended by Peter Geach, has been revived by Patrick Todd (2011, 2016b). On the “Geachian” view, God’s beliefs about the contingent future constitute genui...

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