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    It is not the case that Parallel replies to the objection from present-time knowledge and the objection from first-person knowledge are not surprising.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • There is a structural similarity between the objection from present-time knowledge and the objection from first-person knowledge.
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