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    It is not the case that Omniscience of future events requires that God's knowledge updates or is indexed to temporal positions, implying genuinely sequential cognitive states.

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    • 1.God's knowledge could be a single, timeless act of intellection grasping all events in one eternal cognitive state.
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    • 2.Indexing to temporal positions presupposes God exists in time; a timeless being needs no sequential cognitive updates.
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    • 3.Future events' truth-values may be determinate from the eternal perspective without requiring knowledge to 'update'.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Knowledge of X at time T1 differs from knowledge of X at time T2 if X's truth-value changes between T1 and T2.
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    • 2.Future events have not yet occurred, so their truth-value is not yet determinate without temporal indexing.
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    • 3.Any mind knowing future contingents must track which facts are true at which temporal positions to avoid contradiction.
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