Suppose there is metaphysical vagueness, say that it’s metaphysically vague whether Bob is bald. God cannot believe that Bob is bald, since then Bob is bald. God cannot believe that Bob is not bald, since then Bob is not bald. Does God simply suspend judgment?
Here is a neat solution for the classical theist. Classical theists believe in divine simplicity. Divine simplicity requires an extrinsic constitution model of divine belief or knowledge in the case of contingent things. Suppose a belief version. Then, plausibly, God’s beliefs about contingent things are partly constituted by the realities they are about. Hence, it is plausible that when a reality is vague, it is vague whether God believes in this reality.
Here is another solution. If we think of belief as taking-as-true and disbelief as taking-as-false, we should suppose a third state of taking-as-vague. Then we say that for every proposition, God has a belief, disbelief or third state, as the case might be.
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