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The Formalities of Omniscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

A. N. Prior
Affiliation:
Manchester University

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WHAT do we mean by saying that a being, God for example, is omniscient? One way of answering this question is to translate ‘God is omniscient’ into some slightly more formalised language than colloquial English, e.g. one with variables of a number of different types, including variables replaceable by statements, and quantifiers binding thes.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1962

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