Jay520 on 29 September 2012
| Max King of the Wild said: Yes and his knowledge, by definition, consists of knowing everything. Therefore, by definition, he knows there is nothing that he doesn't know. There is a given. And that given is the being knows everything. All you are saying is "but how does he know" ...welll he knows by definition |
Just because there is a definition that states something, doesn't mean that something isn't a contradiction.
For example, I could create a word called "Quadratriangle." And I could say a quadratriangle is a traingle with four sides.
Obviously, that's a contradictory idea. And just because there's a definition doesn't mean it's not contradictory.
That's what I'm getting at with omniscience. I'm trying to question whether being omnniscient is even possible. So you can't say something is not contradictory because it has a definition.
And the problem with omniscience is: a being cannot use it's knowledge to prove that it's knowledge is infinite.
