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A Further Reply to Beyer on Omniscience

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I provide a further response to Jason A. Beyer’s objections to the alleged inconsistency between God’s omniscience and His other attributes.

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  1. We have also discussed an argument, according to which if God is omnipotent, then He cannot have complete knowledge of what it is like to feel fear, frustration, and despair. I set this argument aside in this paper because it is structurally identical to the first argument.

  2. Beyer, J. A. (2004). A physicalist rejoinder to some problems with omniscience; or how God could know what we know. Sophia, 43, 5–13.

  3. Nagasawa, Y. (2005). Omniscience and physicalism: A reply to Beyer. Sophia, 44, 55–58.

  4. Beyer, J. A. (2006). Reply to Nagasawa. Sophia, 45, 127–130, 128.

  5. Beyer (2006), pp. 128–129.

  6. Beyer (2006), p. 129.

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I would like to thank Dr. Beyer for giving me the opportunity to exchange ideas on this topic. Despite our disagreement, I am grateful for his careful and challenging responses to my objections.

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Nagasawa, Y. A Further Reply to Beyer on Omniscience. SOPHIA 46, 65–67 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-007-0006-7

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