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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.
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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.

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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


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