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    It is not the case that God can know what is contingently 'going to' happen based on the present tendency of things.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • All that is required for such knowledge is exhaustive knowledge of the present.
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