The Problem With God's Conscious Thoughts

God's thoughts as thoughts of a personal agent have an aspectual shape that is uniquely his. A first-person divine thought, like I am the God of Israel, is then a proposition. But if we say that propositions just are God's thoughts, we are no longer able to distinguish between the aspectual shape of a proposition and the aspectualshape of a divine thought having that propositional content. Paraphrastic strategies for dealing with unwanted ontological commitments, including commitment to abstract objects, major on distinguishing propositional content from the way it comes to expression in our thoughts and language.