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    Parallel replies to the objection from present-time knowl... — Carmelics
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    Parallel replies to the objection from present-time knowledge and the objection from first-person knowledge are not surprising.

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    • There is a structural similarity between the objection from present-time knowledge and the objection from first-person knowledge.
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    • 1.First-person indexical knowledge ('I am in pain') is irreducibly subjective in a way that present-tense indexical knowledge ('it is now noon') is not.
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    • 2.Perry and Lewis established that de se beliefs have a distinctive logical structure that cannot be reduced to propositional attitudes about objective times or places.
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    • 3.If the two objections differ in logical kind, parallel replies to structurally dissimilar problems cannot both succeed without independent justification for each.
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    • 1.Wierenga's and Zagzebski's accounts of divine knowledge treat the 'I' in self-knowledge as analogous to a temporal indexical, but this conflates token-reflexive and essential indexical expressions.
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    • 2.An essentially omniscient being outside time faces a stronger explanatory burden for first-person knowledge than for present-tense knowledge, since atemporality removes the latter problem but not the former.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Given the structural similarity between the objection from present-time knowledge and the objection from first-person knowledge it is not surprising that philosophers have given parallel replies. (See Sosa 1983a,b on the analogy between first-person and present-time knowledge.) What is perhaps more surprising is that it has, for the most part, been opponents of the argument who have attempted to supply the details of exactly what the objects of knowledge and belief are in the case of knowledge of the present and of oneself. On the one hand, perhaps the propositions we know when we know what da...

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