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    Supports→God can believe the same propositions we do without getting first-person belief about someone else, and whether he gets present-time belief depends on whether he believes in time or out of time.

    It is not knowing the propositions that makes God temporal; it is whether he believes in time or out of time.

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    Omniscience is supposed to be knowledge that is maximal or complete. Perhaps knowledge of all truths, as (D1) puts it, captures that idea. But there are other features that might be included in such maximal knowledge when it is had by a perfect being. For example, perhaps a perfect being does not merely believe all true propositions but, in addition, could not possibly be mistaken. Perhaps, in other words, such a being is infallible, that is, necessarily such that any proposition it believes is true. Van Inwagen (2006: 26) adds to his variant of (D1) that it is impossible that there is a propo...

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