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    Supports→God can achieve infallible knowledge of future contingents through a 'bootstrapping' process.

    God would be aware of all the evidence and other knowledge-conferring factors that human beings are aware of in such situations, so God is also in a position to know some future contingents by being in the appropriate KCS.

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    Contingent (in philosophy)(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    Something that could be true or false—it's not necessary or guaranteed to be one way or the other.
    KCS(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    An abbreviation for 'Knowledge-Conferring Situation'—the specific circumstances or conditions that would allow someone to know something.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs

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    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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    Fischer (2016, 31–45) tries to fill the gap with his “boot-strapping” account of divine foreknowledge. Even human beings are sometimes in a “knowledge-conferring situation,” or KCS, with respect to the contingent future. Since God would be aware of all the evidence and other knowledge-conferring factors that human beings are aware of in such situations, God is in a position to know (some) future contingents in the same way that human beings can know them: by being in the appropriate KCS. But this presupposes a fallibilist theory of knowledge. What accounts for the infallibility of God’s belief...

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