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    Even an omniscient being (God) cannot write down or surve... — Carmelics
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    Even an omniscient being (God) cannot write down or survey infinitely many propositions.

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    • 1.For God, as for human beings, the series of infinitely many propositions is never-ending or limitless.
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    • 2.A task that cannot in principle be completed is not a genuine task.
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    • 3.'Infinitely many' is not a number word and does not denote a quantity that can be surveyed.
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    ‘Extensionalists’ who assert that “\(\varepsilon(0).\varepsilon(1).\varepsilon(2)\) and so on” is an infinite logical product (PG 452) assume or assert that finite and infinite conjunctions are close cousins—that the fact that we cannot write down or enumerate all of the conjuncts ‘contained’ in an infinite conjunction is only a “human weakness”, for God could surely do so and God could surely survey such a conjunction in a single glance and determine its truth-value. According to Wittgenstein,
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