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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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