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To everyone saying "It uses Its knowledge to know scope & limits of that knowledge." I don't buy that. How could something use its knowledge to know that there is nothing outside of its knowledge? To verify that there is nothing outside of your knowledge, you would need a perspective outside of your knowledge - which is impossible.

If there were something outside and unrelated to your knowledge, you would have no clue of its existence, you would think that you're omniscient. But of course you would have no way of *knowing* that (Knowing suggests that you could use a perspective which covers both things you know and things you don't know. Otherwise you have no way of verifying if there is anything you don't know. But that's impossible). And because its impossible to *know* such a thing, its impossible to be omniscient.