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    God does not have knowledge of future contingent events b... — Carmelics
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    God does not have knowledge of future contingent events because there are no true propositions now that report what future contingent events will occur.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires there to be true propositions about the subject matter.
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    • 2.There are currently no true propositions reporting what future contingent events will occur.
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    • 1.God exists outside of time (atemporally), so 'future' events are present to divine cognition without temporal indexing.
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    • 2.Boethius's 'eternal present' entails God perceives all temporal events simultaneously, bypassing the need for future-tensed propositions.
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    • 3.If divine knowledge is atemporal, the truth-value gap in future contingent propositions does not constrain what God can know.
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    • 1.Ockham's distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' facts entails that God's past beliefs about future events are soft facts, not fixed by the past.
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    • 2.A proposition's lacking a determinate truth-value now is compatible with God having middle knowledge of what agents would freely do under any circumstances.
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    • 3.Molina's doctrine of scientia media grounds divine foreknowledge in counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, which are true independently of temporal contingency.
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    Free Will & ForeknowledgeAgainst an attribute of God

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Another way of trying to solve the puzzle is to deny that God has knowledge of the contingent future. According to this approach, often called “open theism”, there may be future contingent events, but God does not know about them. God does not know about them either because (1) there are no true propositions now that report what future contingent events will occur, or because (2) it is impossible for anyone, including God, to know such true propositions, or because (3) God chooses not to know th
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    Ockham's distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' facts entails that God's past bel...
    There are currently no true propositions reporting what future contingent events...
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