RE: Are we surprising?
January 1, 2011 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2011 at 9:08 am by Darwinian.)
"People get surprised by nothing is actually surprising?" is a contradictory statement.
The only way that something can have the property of 'surprising' is to properly define the property of 'expected'. Therefore if somethings behaviour contradicts what is expected (by everyone) then you could classify it as surprising.
From a theistic point you could also argue that God can predict everything and so, from his point of view, nothing is surprising. This leads us to an interesting problem.. If God cannot be surprised he cannot be omnipotent. Alternatively, if he can be surprised then he cannot be omniscient. But, he certainly can't be both.
The only way that something can have the property of 'surprising' is to properly define the property of 'expected'. Therefore if somethings behaviour contradicts what is expected (by everyone) then you could classify it as surprising.
From a theistic point you could also argue that God can predict everything and so, from his point of view, nothing is surprising. This leads us to an interesting problem.. If God cannot be surprised he cannot be omnipotent. Alternatively, if he can be surprised then he cannot be omniscient. But, he certainly can't be both.
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