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    It is not the case that Omniscience might involve more than knowledge of propositions.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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