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    Supports→The timelessness solution to the dilemma of foreknowledge and freedom is unsuccessful.

    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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    Key Terms

    Cognitive contact(as referring to knowledge of free acts)
    A direct form of awareness or knowledge where a mind can actually know and engage with something—as opposed to knowing about it indirectly.
    Knowledge (vs. true belief)(epistemology)
    Justified true belief—you don't just believe something true by accident; you have solid reasons and real understanding of why it's true.
    Modal sensitivity(epistemology and modal logic)
    The ability to distinguish between what *could* happen, what *actually* does happen, and what *must* happen—basically, understanding different possibilities.
    Temporal events(metaphysics (the study of reality and existence))
    Things that happen in time; events that have a moment when they occur and can change or develop.
    Timeless being

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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.

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