How does God know that 2 + 2 = 4?

Abstract

Sometimes theists wonder how God's beliefs track particular portions of reality, e.g. contingent states of affairs, or facts regarding future free actions. In this article I sketch a general model for how God's beliefs track reality. God's beliefs track reality in much the same way that propositions track reality, namely via grounding. Just as the truth values of true propositions are generally or always grounded in their truthmakers, so too God's true beliefs are grounded in the subject matters of those beliefs (i.e. God believes that p in virtue of the fact that p). This is not idle speculation, since my proposal allows the theist to account for God's true beliefs regarding causally inert portions of reality.Religious Studies,

Probing the mind of God: divine beliefs and credences

“…15.For other accounts of God's knowledge of the Platonic realm, see Brenner (2021) and Knowles (2021). …”

“…16.However, Alston's account is not the only one with these advantages. Brenner (2021) notes that his grounding account of God's knowledge can explain how God knows facts about abstract objects, counterfactuals of freedom, and future contingents, and claims this as an advantage of his view.…”