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No rationality through brute-force

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2017
All reasoners described in the most widespread models of a rational reasoner exhibit logical omniscience, which is impossible for finite reasoners (real reasoners).
Danilo Fraga Dantas
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A Comparison between Swinburne’s and Mutahari’s views on the Problem of Evil [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014
The problem of evil, as raised by Mutahari and Swinburne, is one of the most important and complicated problems concerning belief in God and teleology of the world.
Hamidreza Ekandari Damaneh   +1 more
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Awareness, negation and Logical omniscience [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
General Epistemic Logics suffer from the problem of logical omniscience, which is that an agent's knowledge and beliefs are closed under implication. There have been many attempts to solve the problem of logical omniscience. However, according to our intuition, sometimes an agent's knowledge and beliefs are indeed closed under implication. Based on the
Zhisheng Huang, Karen L. Kwast
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Logical omniscience as a computational complexity problem [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 12th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, 2009
The logical omniscience feature assumes that an epistemic agent knows all logical consequences of her assumptions. This paper offers a general theoretical framework that views logical omniscience as a computational complexity problem. We suggest the following approach: we assume that the knowledge of an agent is represented by an epistemic logical ...
Sergei N. Artëmov, Roman Kuznets
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Fragmentation and Representation Processing: Two Distinct Approaches to Information Access, Deduction, and Logical Omniscience [PDF]

open access: yesManuscrito
Ordinary thinkers don’t know every necessary truth - they are not “logically omniscient.” Furthermore, they don’t know everything that follows from their beliefs - they are not “deductively omniscient.” Stalnaker has famously argued that this is partly ...
ANDREA ONOFRI
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Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience* [PDF]

open access: yesNoûs, 2019
Perhaps one of the chief objections to open future views is that they must deny a principle we may call “Retro-closure”: roughly, if something is the case, then it was the case that it would be the case. Certain theorists, however—supervaluationists and relativists—have attempted to maintain both the open future view, and Retro-closure. In this chapter,
Todd, Patrick, Rabern, Brian
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Peter Lombard on God’s Knowledge and Its Capacities: Sententiae, Book I, Distinctions 38-39

open access: yesSententiae, 2018
The global Peter Lombard research reinaugurated in 1990s has resulted in a number of recent publications, but the Master of the Sentences’ theology proper is partially underreseached. In particular, a more detailed exposition of the distinctions 35-41 of
Rostislav Tkachenko
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Logical Omniscience as a Conditionality Issue. A Multi-Modal Approach

open access: yesCrítica
Many solutions to the problem of Logical Omniscience assume that this arises from the behavior of the epistemic operators. However, few proposals have criticized the assumption that material implication accurately accounts for conditionality. This paper
Juan Carlos Sánchez Hernández
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Noos and Mortal Enquiry in the Poetry of Xenophanes and Parmenides

open access: yesMethodos, 2016
Noos, noein and their derivatives are of central importance to the development of epistemological conceptions in Presocratic philosophy. Already in Homer the terms indicate a special form of cognition, resembling sense perception in its non-inferential ...
Nicolò Benzi
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The Paradox of Omniscience (Sarvajñāna): From Divine Omniscience to the Mystical Self-Awareness in Indian Philosophy

open access: yesReligions
While Western theology typically locates omniscience in a personal Creator-God, Indian philosophy presents a notable spectrum. This article traces the dialectical arc of omniscience (sarvajñāna) across major Indian philosophical traditions, arguing that ...
Youngsun Yang
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