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    Omniscience might involve more than knowledge of proposit... — Carmelics
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    Omniscience might involve more than knowledge of propositions.

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    • 1.Grasping someone's subjective experience seems not to be propositional.
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    • 2.God's omnisubjectivity involves consciously grasping with perfect accuracy and completeness the first-person perspective of every conscious being.
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    • 1.All experiential knowledge can be fully captured by complete propositional descriptions of phenomenal states, including indexical and perspectival propositions.
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    • 2.Mary's Room and related knowledge arguments confuse epistemic access with ontological novelty, not genuine non-propositional knowledge.
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    • 1.Lewis's analysis of knowing-what-it's-like as knowing centered worlds reduces phenomenal knowledge to a species of propositional knowledge about self-locating facts.
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    • 2.If divine omniscience already includes all true propositions including self-locating ones, omnisubjectivity adds no distinct cognitive category beyond complete propositional knowledge.
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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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    Another recent development might also be seen as recommending a different account of omniscience. This is the suggestion, presented most prominently by Zagzebski, that God has the attribute of omnisubjectivity. According to Zagzebski, omnisubjectivity is “the property of consciously grasping with perfect accuracy and completeness the first-person perspective of every conscious being” (2008: 232). She adds that “God’s knowledge of our conscious lives is something like the perfection of empathy” (2008: 236). Since grasping someone’s subjective experience seems not to be propositional, perhaps th...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly presents this as a possible inference ("perhaps the suggestion is that omniscience involves more than knowledge of propositions"), derived from the premises that omnisubjectivity involves grasping subjective experience and that such grasping seems not to be propositional, though the passage ultimately notes Zagzebski herself takes a different view.

    Confidence: The passage presents this as a tentative suggestion ('perhaps the suggestion is that...'), but it is clearly articulated as an argument.

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