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Rrhain
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Message 19 of 21 (48983)
08-06-2003 6:05 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Quetzal
08-06-2003 9:51 AM


Re: 6
Quetzal writes:
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God or the Invisible Pink Unicorn or whatever supernatural entity is classed as omniscient may know all potential paths, but that fact doesn't constrain a particular ndividual from taking any given one of them.
But that isn't omniscience.
If I ask you to "Pick a card. Any card," I know all possible outcomes. What I don't know is which one you'll pick and thus, I am not omniscient.
Unless we're going to say that omniscience is more akin to Epimetheus rather than Prometheus, there is still the problem of if you know what I am going to do and cannot be wrong, is there any possible way for me to do something else?
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