RE: Omniscience: A thought experiment
April 19, 2015 at 10:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2015 at 10:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@Vorlon
If I wrote out a list of every real number between 0 and 144.....would you take that to mean that I actually knew the answer to every multiplication operation limited to two numbers, 0-12, that I possessed that knowledge...that I even knew how to multiply to begin with? Would I, further..possess -foreknowledge- of any given multiplication operation you were to ask of me next tuesday?
For my part..I'm not sure that a list actually qualifies as knowledge in every context (though obviously it;s knowledge of those numbers..at least) - and to me, clearly not foreknowledge. That all boils down to my bare bones requirements of the term knowledge, I suppose.
You?
Quote:Invoking computer science as my inspiration, could we have a database containing all the answers to all the possible questions,An interesting conjecture. Would this, to you, satisfy the conditions of knowledge..let alone all knowledge, including foreknowledge?
If I wrote out a list of every real number between 0 and 144.....would you take that to mean that I actually knew the answer to every multiplication operation limited to two numbers, 0-12, that I possessed that knowledge...that I even knew how to multiply to begin with? Would I, further..possess -foreknowledge- of any given multiplication operation you were to ask of me next tuesday?
For my part..I'm not sure that a list actually qualifies as knowledge in every context (though obviously it;s knowledge of those numbers..at least) - and to me, clearly not foreknowledge. That all boils down to my bare bones requirements of the term knowledge, I suppose.
You?
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