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    If future contingents are genuinely open, no such connect... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→On the Geachian view, God's beliefs about the contingent future constitute genuine knowledge.

    If future contingents are genuinely open, no such connection can ground the belief's content without collapsing the contingency.

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    • 1.Grounding requires a determinate fact; future contingents lack determinate truth-values by definition.
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    • 2.Any causal or metaphysical link to an open future presupposes that future already has determinate structure.
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    • 3.Beliefs need fixed content; openness means content cannot be fixed without collapsing possibility.
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    • 1.Grounding can operate on dispositional or counterfactual facts that don't require current determinateness.
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    • 2.A belief's content can be semantically indeterminate or multiply realizable without collapsing genuine openness.
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    • 3.The argument equivocates between 'determinate truth' and 'determinate reference'—these are distinct issues.
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