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    Knowledge of the present and of oneself may involve etern... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God can believe the same propositions we do without thereby acquiring present-time knowledge or first-person knowledge of someone else.

    Knowledge of the present and of oneself may involve eternally true propositions, where what changes is our access to the propositions rather than the propositions themselves.

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    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.

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    Another recent development might also be seen as recommending a different account of omniscience. This is the suggestion, presented most prominently by Zagzebski, that God has the attribute of omnisubjectivity. According to Zagzebski, omnisubjectivity is “the property of consciously grasping with perfect accuracy and completeness the first-person perspective of every conscious being” (2008: 232). She adds that “God’s knowledge of our conscious lives is something like the perfection of empathy” (2008: 236). Since grasping someone’s subjective experience seems not to be propositional, perhaps th...

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