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    Supports→Omniscience is incompatible with immutability.

    Knowing different things at different times requires changing, which is incompatible with being immutable.

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    Another question that arises about God’s knowledge is whether it is all occurrent knowledge or whether some of his knowledge is dispositional. Knowledge of a proposition is occurrent if the knower has that proposition in mind. And knowledge of a proposition is dispositional, roughly, if the person knows the proposition but is not currently thinking about it or entertaining it, that is, if the person has a dispositional belief (see Section 2.1 of the entry on belief) in that proposition. Philosophers have answered this question differently. Thomas Aquinas claimed that God’s knowledge was not “d...

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