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    It is not the case that Omniscience does not extend to knowledge of the future.

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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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    • Apart from present trends and tendencies, there is no future to be known.
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