Omniscience and the Identification Problem

Florida Philosophical Review 7 (1):78-91 (2007)
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I discuss the propositional knowledge of an omniscient being, knowledge of facts that can be represented by that-clauses in sentences such as ‘John knows that the world is round.’ I shall focus upon questions about a supposedly omniscient being who propositionally knows the truth about all current states of affairs. I shall argue that there is no such being.

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Robert Bass
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