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Omniscience is the capacity to know everything. In Hinduism, Sikhism and the Abrahamic religions, this is an attribute of God. In Jainism, omniscience is an attribute that any individual can eventually attain. In Buddhism, there are differing beliefs about omniscience among different schools.
Within philosophy of religion, Grim is known for a Cantorian argument against the possibility of omniscience. In its simplest and original set-theoretic form (elaborated and buttressed in later work): There can be no set of all truths. Given any set of truths T, there will be a power set PT of all subsets of that set. For each element of that ...
Another pair of alleged incompatible properties is omniscience and either indeterminacy or free will. Omniscience concerning the past and present (properly defined relative to Earth) is not a problem, but there is an argument that omniscience regarding the future implies it has been determined, what seems possible only in a deterministic world. [1]
Its antonym is अज्ञान ajñāna "ignorance". Etymology ... Kevalā Jñāna (Omniscience) In Sikhism. Gyan or Gian refers to spiritual knowledge. Learned ...
Other means of reconciling God's omniscience with human free will have been proposed. Some have attempted to redefine or reconceptualize free will: God can know in advance what I will do, because free will is to be understood only as freedom from coercion, and anything further is an illusion. This is the move made by compatibilistic philosophies.
The claim of existence of omniscience by Jains, who deny the existence of a creator god, is a unique phenomenon. [8] The Sutrakritanga text of the Svetambara school, elaborates the concept as all-knowing and provides details of his other qualities. [9] Another text, the Kalpa Sūtra, gives details of Mahavira's omniscience
Omniscience features as an incompatible-properties argument for the existence of God, known as the argument from free will, and is closely related to other such arguments, for example the incompatibility of omnipotence with a good creator deity (i.e. if a deity knew what they were going to choose, then they are responsible for letting them ...
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.