Revisiting Kretzmann's Argument that an Immutable God Can't God Know Mutable Reality

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit Norman Kretzmann’s argument that an immutable God can’t always know what time it is. We uncover two implicit premises that, we argue, theists can simply reject once their incompatibility with their theistic commitments is made apparent. These suppositions are (i) internalism about beliefs and (ii) content essentialism. We end by considering further whether these two theses are, in fact, in conflict between themselves. If true, this would make Kretzmann’s argument dialectically unstable.