omniscience

omniscience
The property of knowing everything. The traditional philosophical problem is to reconcile the orthodox idea that God knows everything with the absence of predetermination, or in other words with the idea that whereas the past is fixed the future remains somehow ‘open’. To many thinkers it has seemed that if God knows, already, what will happen tomorrow, then human free will and responsibility must be a mere sham.

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  • omniscience — [ ɔmnisjɑ̃s ] n. f. • 1734; lat. médiév. omniscientia ♦ Littér. Science de toute chose. « Dans l idée de Dieu, avec son omnipotence et son omniscience » (Baudelaire). ● omniscience nom féminin (latin scolastique omniscientia) Littéraire.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Omniscience — Om*nis cience, n. [Cf. F. omniscience.] The quality or state of being omniscient; the quality of knowing everything; an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • omniscience — (n.) 1610s, from M.L. omniscientia all knowledge, from L. omnis all (see OMNI (Cf. omni) ) + scientia knowledge (see SCIENCE (Cf. science)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • omniscience —    Omniscience is easily defined as the knowledge of all truth (though we should also add that God has personal knowledge of everything). Christian philosophers have wrestled, however, with various problems that have been posed: one is the famous …   Christian Philosophy

  • omniscience — [äm nish′əns; ] Brit & Cdn [, ämnis′ē əns] n. [ME < ML omniscientia] the state or quality of being omniscient …   English World dictionary

  • Omniscience — For the album by Swans, see Omniscience (album). Omniscience (  /ɒmˈ …   Wikipedia

  • Omniscience — L Omniscience (omnisciente au féminin) est la capacité de tout savoir infiniment, ou de manière plus restrictive, tout ce qui peut être connu sur un sujet quelconque, et notamment dans le cas d une personne de connaître intégralement ses pensées… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • omniscience — (o mni si an s ) s. f. Terme de théologie. La science infinie de Dieu. •   Nous savons démonstrativement que, si Dieu existe, Dieu est libre ; nous savons en même temps qu il sait tout ; mais cette prescience et cette omniscience sont aussi… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Omniscience — All knowledge. Infinite awareness, understanding, and insight. Someone who (supposedly) possesses omniscience is omniscient. From the Latin omni (all) + scire (to know) = to know all. Medical students and nursing students would do well to recall… …   Medical dictionary

  • omniscience — omniscient ► ADJECTIVE ▪ knowing everything. DERIVATIVES omniscience noun omnisciently adverb. ORIGIN Latin omnisciens, from scire to know …   English terms dictionary

  • Omniscience (album) — Omniscience Live album by Swans Released 1992 Recorded 1992 Genre Noise rock, No Wave …   Wikipedia

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