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    Perry and Lewis establish that essentially indexical beli... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An atemporal believer can timelessly know the same truths that temporal believers know only at some times, so there is no bar to atemporal omniscience.

    Perry and Lewis establish that essentially indexical beliefs like 'it is now t' resist reduction to eternal propositional contents.

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    • 1.Temporal beliefs like 'it is now t' require a moving present moment that eternal propositions cannot capture.
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    • 2.Two agents at different times cannot hold identical eternal propositional contents yet have different practical beliefs.
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    • 3.The A-theory of time (presentism) makes temporal indexicality genuinely irreducible to B-theory eternal facts.
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    • 1.Beliefs about temporal location reduce to relational facts: 'now' means 'simultaneous with this utterance'—eternally specifiable.
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    • 2.Different agents' beliefs at different times can be identical in content (both about the same temporal property) despite different times.
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    • 3.The B-theory of time adequately explains all temporal phenomena without requiring irreducibly indexical propositions.
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