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    Omniscience does not extend to knowledge of the future. — Carmelics
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    Omniscience does not extend to knowledge of the future.

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    • Apart from present trends and tendencies, there is no future to be known.
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    • 1.On a tenseless (B-theory) view of time, future events exist as fully as present ones, merely at later temporal coordinates.
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    • 2.If future events exist in the four-dimensional manifold, an omniscient being with atemporal perspective could know them as Boethius argued in Consolation of Philosophy.
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    • 3.Therefore the claim that there is 'no future to be known' presupposes a contested A-theory of time rather than establishing a conclusion about omniscience.
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    • 1.Aquinas and Molina held that God knows future contingents through middle knowledge or eternal present, not through temporal foreknowledge.
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    • 2.If divine cognition is not temporally indexed but encompasses all times in a single eternal act, the incompleteness of the future is irrelevant to divine knowing.
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    • 3.The argument from P1 therefore conflates the epistemic situation of temporal knowers with the cognitive mode traditionally ascribed to an atemporal deity.
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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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    Knowledge of all true propositions would seem to include knowledge of all truths about the future, at least if there are truths about the future. Thus omniscience would seem to include foreknowledge. There is a long tradition, however, of philosophers who have thought that divine foreknowledge was incompatible with human free action, or, at any rate, they took arguments for the incompatibility seriously enough so as to require either disarming them or limiting what is involved in divine omniscience. (Similar reasoning might be given to argue that God’s foreknowledge is incompatible with some o...

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