Without genuine cognitive contact with temporal events as they occur, a timeless being's 'knowledge' of free acts lacks the modal sensitivity needed to count as knowledge rather than mere true belief.
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A being (like God, in classical theology) that exists outside of time and doesn't experience moments passing the way we do.
True belief(Contrasted with knowledge in the Jones/Smith example)
A belief that is true but lacks the justification required for knowledge
free acts(Kant's compatibilist taxonomy of event types in the New Elucidation)
Events that possess sufficient ability to withstand external forces, distinguished from necessary consequents by their degree of determining power
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.