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    It is not the case that If all truths are known sub specie aeternitatis, then the appearance of non-eternal truth reflects epistemic limitation, not ontological contingency.

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    • 1.The argument conflates 'known sub specie aeternitatis' with determinism; timeless knowledge of contingent truths is philosophically coherent without this move.
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    • 2.Ontological contingency requires that some truths could genuinely be otherwise; epistemic limitation alone cannot explain why certain possibilities are genuinely closed.
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    • 3.If all facts about becoming, change, and temporal sequence are real features of reality, they cannot reduce to mere appearance caused by human limitation.
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    • 1.Eternal knowledge requires a perspective outside time; temporal appearance of truth-discovery reflects limited access, not reality's nature.
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    • 2.If contingency were ontological, an eternal mind would perceive genuine indeterminacy, not merely hidden knowledge—yet omniscience seems incompatible with this.
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    • 3.Our experience of learning truths matches epistemic limitation better than ontological emergence, since facts about the past don't change when we discover them.
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