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Many thanks to the following persons for helpful comments and criticisms of earlier versions of this paper: participants in the January 1990 Colloquium of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University; my commentator David Schrader and other participants in the 1990 Meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Religion in New Orleans; Charles Kielkopf, Calvin Normore, Thomas Flint, A.A. Howsepian, Michael Murray, Alvin Plantinga and Donald Turner.

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Davison, S.A. Foreknowledge, middle knowledge and “nearby” worlds. Int J Philos Relig 30, 29–44 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00137998

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