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    Supports→God can believe the same propositions we do without thereby acquiring present-time knowledge or first-person knowledge of someone else.

    Such knowledge involves a special 'direct grasp' of a proposition, which leaves it open that God could believe the same propositions without ending up with present-time or first-person knowledge of someone else.

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    Direct grasp(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    An immediate, intuitive understanding of something without needing to reason through it step-by-step—like knowing a fact directly rather than figuring it out.
    First-person knowledge(epistemology)
    Knowledge based on your own direct experience or perspective, like knowing how you feel or what you saw yourself.
    God (in philosophical context)(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of religion)
    In philosophy, God typically refers to an all-knowing, all-powerful being—often discussed to explore questions about knowledge, power, and reality.

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    Present-time knowledge(epistemology and philosophy of time)
    Knowledge about what is happening right now, in the current moment, rather than knowledge about the past or future.
    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.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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    The usual discussions of omniscience treat it as a special case of knowledge, although, perhaps, with such additional features as being arrived at infallibly or through essential omniscience. A standard account of knowledge holds that it is justified true belief, plus a “fourth condition” to avoid counterexamples (see, for example, Chisholm 1989: 90–91). Perhaps, instead, knowledge is warranted true belief, that is, a true belief produced by ones noetic faculties functioning properly in circumstances in which they were designed to function (see, for example, Plantinga 1993). Or, according to a...

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