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    On the Geachian view, contingent future propositions lack... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→On the Geachian view, God's beliefs about the contingent future constitute genuine knowledge.

    On the Geachian view, contingent future propositions lack a determinate truth value prior to the relevant events.

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    • 1.If contingent future propositions had determinate truth values now, the future would be fixed and causally closed to present agents.
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    • 2.Our experience of deliberation and choice presupposes that future outcomes remain genuinely open until events occur.
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    • 3.Classical logic's law of excluded middle need not apply to statements about contingent futures without incoherence.
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    • 1.Propositions are inherently either true or false; denying bivalence creates a truth-value gap that language cannot accommodate.
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    • 2.If future contingents lack truth values now, we cannot coherently assess current arguments about future scenarios as valid or invalid.
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    • 3.Physics suggests the universe's state at any moment determines all future states; indeterminate truth values contradict this picture.
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