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    Challenges→The future is necessary ex suppositione (conditionally necessary), though not absolutely necessary

    If future contingents lack determinate truth-values prior to occurrence, God's immutable knowledge cannot have a fixed object, undermining the suppositio that generates the conditional necessity.

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    Conditional necessity(Aristotle's teleological account of biological development)
    The relation whereby the outcome (the living organism's life) necessitates that developmental processes bring about the parts required for it, rather than parts and processes necessitating the outcome.
    Fixed object(what God's knowledge needs to have in order to be complete knowledge)
    Something definite and stable that knowledge can be directed toward; if knowledge lacks a fixed object, there's nothing certain to know.
    God's immutable knowledge(the theological problem being discussed)
    The theological idea that God knows everything with perfect certainty and this knowledge never changes, even about future events.
    Suppositio(as part of 'context-sensitive suppositio')
    A Latin term meaning the role a word plays in a sentence—what it refers to or represents in that particular context.

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    Truth-values(logic and semantics)
    Whether a statement is true or false—the two possible truth-values are 'true' and 'false.'
    determinate(Contrasted with determinables; taken to be independently posited in the causal/ontological economy)
    A maximally specific instance of a determinable property (e.g., scarlet as a determinate of red)
    future contingents(Łukasiewicz's three-valued logic)
    Propositions about future events whose truth-value is undetermined, such as F(x)q and F(x)~q
    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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