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    Supports→The denial of future contingent truth is not sufficient to avoid the problem of theological fatalism.

    If no truth-bearer exists regarding future contingents, God's infallibility cannot generate a binding belief-state about them, since infallibility governs accuracy, not scope of belief.

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    God's infallibility(as used in philosophy of religion and theology)
    The traditional idea that God cannot make mistakes or be wrong about anything. It's about God's perfect knowledge and reliability.
    Truth-bearer(The passage distinguishes between truth-bearers that bear their features accidentally (sentences, judgements) and those that bear them essentially (propositions).)
    An item that bears representational features and is capable of being true or false.
    binding belief-state(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    A belief that commits you or locks you into something—like a belief that obligates you to act a certain way or accept certain consequences.
    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

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    infallibility governs accuracy, not scope of belief(as used in epistemology and philosophy of religion)
    Being infallible means your beliefs are always correct (accuracy), but it doesn't control how many things you can have beliefs about or what subjects you can form beliefs regarding (scope).

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