Posted: Jan 05, 2015 12:43 pm
Thommo wrote:GrahamH wrote:Rumraket wrote:Why? Well because, while we cannot show that omniscience is logically impossible, we also cannot show it's logically possible either. Beyond the mere definition of being all-knowing, it cannot be shown that such an attribute is an achievable state of affairs.
If you can't show it to be logically impossible (it is not a contradiction), then it is locally possible.
Do you mean "locally possible"? or is that a typo?
Yes, of course, it was a typo. It should have been 'logically possible'. (Now corrected.)