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    It is not the case that Omniscience need only require knowledge of all true propositions, and on B-theory, tensed indexical propositions reduce to tenseless ones.

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    • 1.Indexical content like 'now' may not reduce to tenseless propositions without loss of phenomenological or assertoric meaning.
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    • 2.B-theory itself is metaphysically controversial; grounding omniscience on it assumes a contested view of time's nature.
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    • 3.Omniscience of tenseless facts alone may not explain how God knows the subjective experience of 'now' that conscious beings have.
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    • 1.B-theory treats time as a static dimension where all moments exist equally, eliminating metaphysical privilege of the present.
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    • 2.Tensed propositions like 'it is now raining' can be translated to tenseless facts about when rain occurs in spacetime.
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    • 3.An omniscient being knowing all true propositions (tenseless and tensed-reduced) avoids the problem of knowledge changing over time.
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