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    Challenges→On the Geachian view, God's beliefs about the contingent future constitute genuine knowledge.

    Knowledge requires a truth-maker that is settled and determinate at the time of belief formation.

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    • 1.Belief formed on unstable or indeterminate grounds cannot constitute knowledge, only lucky guessing.
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    • 2.Truth-makers must exist independently of our beliefs for those beliefs to track objective reality.
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    • 3.Determinate truth-makers at belief-time prevent skeptical scenarios where justification misleads us.
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    • 1.Some truths (future contingents, quantum events) lack determinate truth-makers even when knowable.
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    • 2.Knowledge of historical events relies on evidence from past, not determinate present truth-makers.
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    • 3.The requirement conflates epistemology (how we know) with metaphysics (what makes things true).
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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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