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    Knowing all truths might reduce the amount of power or be... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A perfect being could be omniscient without knowing all truths.

    Knowing all truths might reduce the amount of power or benevolence the being could possess.

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    Several recent discussions of omniscience have attempted to defend a more restricted account than offered by the preceding definitions. For example, Langtry (2008: 39) suggests that God is omniscient just in case, for every true proposition p, “either God knows that p, or else he does not but his knowing that p is not precluded by any defect or limitation in his intrinsic cognitive capacities.” Nagasawa (2017) claims that a stronger version of perfect being theology would hold that God has a “maximally consistent set” of the divine attributes of knowledge, power, and benevolence. This would al...

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