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Divine Omniscience

Arguments against:
1) Indexicals
2) Power set

3) Omniscience logically impossible with human free will:

p: I am strangling a small kitten with one hand as I write this.
q: God knew before I was born that today I would strangle this kitten.

Given the definition of 'know', q -> p.
Ncessarily q, by the constancy of the past.
So using modal logic, necessarily p.

One might question whether the fact that God knew I was going to kill the kitten (she's now dead, by the way) really means that it ws not my choice. It was simply in my nature to make that choice, and God knew in advance that the choice would be made, but I still went thr...

Posted by: Veronica Gardner

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