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- Title
Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience*.
- Authors
Todd, Patrick; Rabern, Brian
- Abstract
I Omni-correctness i : B T b if and only if God believes These, then, are the two options characterizing (a necessary condition on) divine omniscience that we will explore in connection with Open-closurism.[13] For ease of exposition, we will often talk in terms of I God's anticipations i and I God's recollections i .[14] We assume that for God to believe that something will happen tomorrow just is for God to anticipate it. That is, given that it is indeterminate whether there will be a sea-battle, it is also indeterminate whether God anticipates a sea-battle.[17] But if it is indeterminate whether God anticipates a sea-battle, then perhaps we can say the following: God's mind is either in a state of sea-battle-anticipation or it's in a state of non-anticipation, but it is metaphysically indeterminate which. Clearly, the Peircean can maintain the claim that, yesterday, there existed an omniscient God; the Peircean, in virtue of denying Retro-closure, will simply contend that, though yesterday God did not anticipate today's sea-battle, this doesn't show that yesterday God was ignorant - for, according to the Peircean, yesterday it wasn't I true i that there would be a sea-battle today. If we I begin i once more by granting that God is omniscient, despite not believing that there will be a sea battle (and not believing that there will not be a sea battle), our contention is that God's response intuitively should be different: Us: But it was true that a sea-battle was going to occur! That is, either there will be a sea-battle tomorrow and God doesn't anticipate the sea-battle I or i there will be peace tomorrow and God doesn't anticipate peace.
- Subjects
FUTURE (Logic); INDETERMINISM (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY of religion
- Publication
Nous, 2021, Vol 55, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
0029-4624
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nous.12294