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    It is not the case that God's knowledge changes over time.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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