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    If God's knowing does not involve succession from one men... — Carmelics
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    If God's knowing does not involve succession from one mental state to another, then the change in tensed facts entails no change in God's knowledge.

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    • 1.God's knowledge is eternal and unchanging; temporal succession characterizes only finite minds.
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    • 2.If God knows all tensed facts timelessly, changes in which facts are 'now true' don't alter God's knowledge state.
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    • 3.Knowledge requires a knower's mental state to correspond to reality; eternal correspondence needs no succession.
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    • 1.Knowing 'it is now 2024' differs from knowing 'it is now 2025'—these are distinct propositional contents God must distinguish.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge state remains identical while tensed facts change, God's beliefs fail to track changing reality.
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    • 3.Atemporality doesn't resolve how one eternal mental state encompasses incompatible tensed truths simultaneously.
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    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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