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    If God's knowledge of 'it is now raining' differs from 'i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God's temporal experience, while involving succession, is very much unlike ordinary temporal experience.

    If God's knowledge of 'it is now raining' differs from 'it was raining yesterday,' God undergoes real epistemic change structurally identical to ordinary temporal experience.

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    • 1.Knowledge content differences require corresponding differences in the knower's epistemic state to remain truth-apt and non-vacuous.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge has propositional structure (true/false content), that structure inherently involves temporal indexicals like 'now'.
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    • 3.Temporal indexicals change truth-value across times; accepting this while denying epistemic change requires ad-hoc metaphysical exceptions.
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    • 1.God's knowledge could be eternally comprehensive yet unchanging: God eternally knows the entire temporal sequence as a non-temporal manifold.
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    • 2.'Epistemic change' and 'knowing different propositions at different times' equivocate; the latter doesn't require internal alteration.
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    • 3.Indexical propositions can be true/false relative to times without the knower's internal state changing—similar to how a timeless map represents temporal facts.
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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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