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    Omnisubjectivity is better thought of as a further extens... — Carmelics
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    Omnisubjectivity is better thought of as a further extension of divine cognitive perfection rather than a rejection of standard definitions of omniscience.

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    • 1.Zagzebski claims that omnisubjectivity is entailed by omniscience, or entailed by the conjunction of omniscience and omnipresence.
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    • 2.Since omnisubjectivity follows from omniscience (or omniscience plus omnipresence), it does not replace the standard propositional definitions but extends them.
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    • 1.Subjective experiential states are not reducible to propositional content, as Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' demonstrates.
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    • 2.If omnisubjectivity requires knowing qualia that resist propositional encoding, it introduces a categorically distinct cognitive mode, not an extension of propositional omniscience.
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    • 3.A genuine extension of omniscience must operate within the same epistemic register; crossing into irreducibly phenomenal knowledge constitutes a revision, not an expansion.
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    • 1.Zagzebski's entailment claim presupposes that omnipresence grants God causal access sufficient for phenomenal knowledge, but causal access alone does not entail experiential identity.
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    • 2.Jackson's knowledge argument shows that Mary gains new knowledge upon seeing red despite complete physical information, meaning propositional saturation cannot ground subjective knowing.
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    • 3.If omnisubjectivity cannot be derived from propositional omniscience without an additional, non-standard epistemic principle, the entailment argument fails and omnisubjectivity remains a conceptually independent attribute.
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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 states that because Zagzebski claims omnisubjectivity is entailed by omniscience (or omniscience plus omnipresence), "it is perhaps better thought of as a further extension of divine cognitive perfection and not a rejection of the definitions listed above," which directly matches the extracted argument's premises and conclusion.

    Confidence: The argument is clearly laid out in the passage: because Zagzebski treats omnisubjectivity as entailed by omniscience rather than as a replacement, it counts as an extension rather than a rejection.

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