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    It is not the case that God is omniscient

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika epistemology holds that valid cognition requires a causal contact between knower and known object.
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    • 2.An immaterial, unchanging God cannot stand in the requisite causal-perceptual relation to contingent, changing particulars.
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    • 3.Therefore the inference from 'maker of dyads' cannot establish knowledge of all particulars, undermining omniscience.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.A maker of composite entities need only perceive the components and their relations, not all facts about all things.
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    • 2.Omniscience requires knowledge of every truth, which vastly exceeds what any productive causal role logically entails.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Dyads are the most basic things composed of atoms, and everything else is made from them
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    • 2.The maker of dyads is therefore aware of everything, by definition of 'maker'
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    • 3.The inference establishes that dyads have a maker (God)
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