Questions tagged [omniscience]

Omniscience (mainly in religion), is the capacity to know everything that there is to know.

Omniscience (mainly in religion), is the capacity to know everything that there is to know. In particular, Hinduism and the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) believe that there is a divine being who is omniscient. An omniscient point-of-view, in writing, is to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, feelings, etc. In Latin, omnis means "all" and sciens means "knowing".

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Is omniscience possible in a universe with quantum mechanics?

Today this argument against the existence of an omniscient being occurred to me. Can someone point out the flaws? Can someone point me to writings about arguments like this one? If an omniscient being exists, there exists knowledge about the…
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Does omnipresence imply perfect wisdom?

Let's start by saying I'm not talking about a specific god or religion. I'm actually going to be exploring an interesting train of thought in a story setting where some unfortunate person's existence becomes infinite. My question simply is this: If…
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