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    If the proposition believed by God is the eternal variant... — 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 the proposition believed by God is the eternal variant, it is a numerically distinct proposition from the indexical one, so God and the agent do not believe the same proposition.

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    Eternal variant(The non-indexical version of a proposition that stays the same regardless of perspective)
    A version of a statement that doesn't change based on time or who's speaking, expressing the same meaning in a fixed way.
    indexical(Used to explain how 'the second-largest city in the United States' can refer to Chicago when embedded under a past-tense temporal operator)
    An expression whose reference depends on the context of utterance
    numerically distinct(Used to characterize the parts of the Form that must exist separately in each participant)
    Being distinct in the sense of being different individual tokens, not merely different in kind or quality.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    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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