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    Not all truths are eternal. — Carmelics
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    Not all truths are eternal.

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    • 1.If anything changes, then it is not the case that all truths are eternal.
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    • 2.Things do change.
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    • 1.All apparently contingent truths about change are grounded in eternal modal truths (e.g., 'It is eternally true that water was liquid at t1').
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    • 2.Tensed facts reduce without remainder to tenseless eternal facts indexed to times, as argued by Russell and the B-theory of time.
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    • 1.God's atemporal eternal 'now' (Boethius's nunc stans) contains all temporal events as simultaneously present, making all truths eternally accessible.
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    • 2.If all truths are known sub specie aeternitatis, then the appearance of non-eternal truth reflects epistemic limitation, not ontological contingency.
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    All apparently contingent truths about change are grounded in eternal modal trut...God's atemporal eternal 'now' (Boethius's nunc stans) contains all temporal even...If all truths are known sub specie aeternitatis, then the appearance of non-eter...If anything changes, then it is not the case that all truths are eternal.
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    There are eternal truths93%If anything changes, then it is not the case that all truths are etern...87%The eternal truths have reality independent of the understanding85%Only an infinite being can be the source of eternal truths.85%

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    If anything changes, then it is not the case that all truths are eternal. God knows all truths, hence also those which are such only for today. He could not apprehend these truths yesterday, since at that time they were not truths—but there were other truths instead of them. Thus he knows, for example, that I write down these thoughts, but yesterday he knew not that, but rather that I was going to write them down later. And similarly he will know tomorrow that I have written them down. (Brentano, Philosophische Untersuchungen, English translation in Chisholm 1979: 347)

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