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Omniscience: the ability to know all statements. - Logical problem even the understanding of a logically true statement could could cause the requirement, that all logical consequences are known. E.g. Knowing the calculation rules would logically require that all the results are known._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Niko Strobach on Omniscience - Dictionary of Arguments
Stro I 125 Logical omniscience/Strobach: arises because propositional logic theorems are valid in all possible worlds and all possible worlds that are compatible with a knowledge trivially are possible worlds. >Possible worlds, >Compatibility, >Propositional logic. If that were true, one needed to learn no proof techniques. - The same problem also exists with faith and belief. >Beliefs. Instead: it happens that you know something, but are not aware of its logical consequences. >Knowledge, >Logic, >Conclusions._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Stro I N. Strobach Einführung in die Logik Darmstadt 2005 |