If God timelessly perceives future free choices as a simultaneous whole, the bivalence failure in P2 applies only to temporal knowers, not to an atemporal being whose knowledge has no 'in advance'.
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In advance(as something that doesn't apply to an atemporal being's knowledge)
Knowing something before it happens; learning about an event ahead of time.
P2(Provides the truth conditions for proposition (7), identified as proposition (7): George Bush does not exist.)
The principle that proposition (7) is true if and only if George Bush does not exist — a modalized instance of the Tarski truth-schema 's is true iff s'.
Temporal knowers(as contrasted with atemporal beings)
Beings like humans who exist within time and learn about events sequentially—past, then present, then future.
Timelessly perceives(as a description of divine knowledge)
The idea that God sees or knows all events—past, present, and future—at once, rather than learning about them one moment at a time like humans do.
bivalence(Stoic logic; Chrysippus's position on contingent future propositions)
The truth table defining logical connectives contains only two values, true and false; every proposition is either true or false.
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.