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    If God's belief of a proposition lacks the requisite firs... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God can believe the same propositions we do without thereby acquiring present-time knowledge or first-person knowledge of someone else.

    If God's belief of a proposition lacks the requisite first-person perspective, it cannot be the same belief state, and the claim that God believes 'the same proposition' equivocates on propositional identity.

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    Equivocate (or equivocation)(the logical error the statement claims happens when people say God believes the 'same proposition' as humans)
    To use the same word in two different ways within an argument, which creates confusion because it appears the word means the same thing throughout.
    First-person perspective(individual, subjective experiences about consciousness)
    A subjective, personal view from inside your own experience—what something is like for you alone, from your own point of view.
    Propositional identity(as what the statement claims is being undermined)
    Whether two different statements or sentences should be counted as expressing the exact same idea or meaning.
    belief state(Perry 1980 onwards)
    How an agent believes something, as distinguished from what she believes; in Perry's later work, individuated in terms of narrow functional role.

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    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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