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    Omniscience is not possible. — Carmelics
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    Omniscience is not possible.

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    • 1.There is no set of all truths.
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    • 2.A being could know all truths only if there were a set of all truths.
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    • 1.A omniscient being need not know truths via set-membership but through direct, non-propositional acquaintance with reality as a whole.
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    • 2.Cantorian limitations on sets apply to formal mathematical objects, not necessarily to the cognitive acts of an infinite mind.
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    • 1.Aquinas's doctrine of divine simplicity holds that God knows all things through a single, identical act of self-knowledge, bypassing any requirement for a totality-set.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge is identical with His essence rather than a collection of discrete propositional attitudes, the set-theoretic objection does not apply.
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