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    It is not the case that Omniscience could be better understood by appealing to forms of knowledge beyond propositional knowledge, such as knowing other people in personal relationships, the centrality of care, and the role of emotion in leading to knowledge.

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    • 1.Classical theism, from Aquinas to Maimonides, grounds divine omniscience in God's self-knowledge as pure actuality, not relational or emotional cognition.
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    • 2.Introducing emotion and care into divine cognition risks attributing passivity and dependence to God, contradicting divine aseity and impassibility.
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    • 3.A being whose knowledge is partially constituted by relational response cannot be the unmoved ground of all being that classical omniscience requires.
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    • 1.Feminist standpoint epistemology, from which this claim draws, is designed to critique human epistemic practices, not to provide an ontological account of infinite divine cognition.
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    • 2.Applying frameworks built on embodied, situated knowers to a necessarily non-situated divine being commits a category error identified by thinkers like Herbert McCabe and Brian Davies.
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    • 1.Propositional ideals of human knowledge exclude marginalized and maligned forms of knowledge.
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    • 2.There are other forms of knowledge, such as knowing other people in personal relationships, the centrality of care which leads to acknowledgement of the otherness of the object of knowledge, and the role of emotion in leading to knowledge.
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