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    God's knowledge changes over time. — Carmelics
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    God's knowledge changes over time.

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    • 1.God knows all truths.
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    • 2.Some truths are such only for today and were not truths yesterday.
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    • 3.God could not apprehend these truths yesterday, since at that time they were not truths.
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    • 1.God exists in eternal simultaneity (the 'eternal now'), apprehending all times as a single timeless present, as Boethius argues in Consolation V.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge is atemporal, then 'change in knowledge' presupposes temporal succession, which cannot apply to a being outside time.
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    • 3.Therefore the supporting argument's inference from changing truth-values to changing divine knowledge commits a category error by projecting temporal indexicality onto an eternal knower.
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    • 1.God's knowledge is not propositional but a single, undivided intellectual intuition of all reality, as Aquinas holds in Summa Theologiae I q.14.
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    • 2.If divine knowledge is not composed of discrete, temporally indexed propositions, then the move from 'some propositions change truth-value' to 'God's knowledge changes' is a non sequitur.
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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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    Given the structural similarity between the objection from present-time knowledge and the objection from first-person knowledge it is not surprising that philosophers have given parallel replies. (See Sosa 1983a,b on the analogy between first-person and present-time knowledge.) What is perhaps more surprising is that it has, for the most part, been opponents of the argument who have attempted to supply the details of exactly what the objects of knowledge and belief are in the case of knowledge of the present and of oneself. On the one hand, perhaps the propositions we know when we know what da...

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