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Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence
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RE: Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence
(September 26, 2013 at 8:58 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:
(September 26, 2013 at 7:36 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: So given
(a) your original premise (P2) You cannot be aware of that which you are [currently] unaware of, even if in principle you could one day become aware of it.
(b) any proposition F that an entity does not know
© noncognizant unawareness ('unknown unknown')

does (P2) say
P2*) "You cannot know that you don't know F"?

I know I'm asking a lot of questions, but when you make arguments like this, I find it important to be precise.

Hah, I don't mind questions, that's why I posted the argument in the first place. Smile

Anyhow, yeah I guess the argument wasn't precise there. What I meant in P2) was that you cannot know there is something of which you do not know of. I didn't mean not something of which you know that you don't know (e.g. the number of atoms composing your body.

But isn't that tautological?
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RE: Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence - by Ryantology - September 20, 2013 at 11:54 pm
RE: Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence - by bennyboy - September 26, 2013 at 9:55 am
RE: Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence - by bennyboy - September 26, 2013 at 9:03 pm
RE: Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence - by Vincenzo Vinny G. - September 26, 2013 at 10:10 pm
RE: Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence - by bennyboy - September 30, 2013 at 3:19 am
RE: Omniscience Argument Against God's Existence - by Cato - October 1, 2013 at 11:59 pm

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