Omniscience
noun
The state or condition of knowing everything.
Some people believe that God's omniscience allows him to know the past, present, and future.
Often appears as...
- divine omniscience
- absolute omniscience
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Religious
noun
The capacity to know everything there is to know.
In traditional science fiction, AI often evolves to a state of omniscience.
Often appears as...
- ai's omniscience
- omniscience and omnipotence
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Science Fiction
noun
The state or condition of knowing everything.
Some people believe that God's omniscience allows him to know the past, present, and future.
Often appears as...
- divine omniscience
- absolute omniscience
Usage tips
Religious
noun
The capacity to know everything there is to know.
In traditional science fiction, AI often evolves to a state of omniscience.
Often appears as...
- ai's omniscience
- omniscience and omnipotence
Usage tips
Science Fiction
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Pro Tip 1/3Religious Context
Often used to describe a deity's ability to know all in a religious setting.
The scriptures often refer to the omniscience of a supreme being.
Pro Tip 2/3Absolute Knowledge
Implies perfect knowledge, with no errors or gaps.
Believers in divine omniscience argue that there are no secrets from God.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Literal
In non-religious discussions, 'omniscience' is usually not taken literally.
When someone says a person has omniscience, they might mean they're just very knowledgeable.
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
that there's an invisible, all-knowing authority who, because of its omniscience, always watches whatever you're doing, which means you never have a private moment, the ultimate enforcer for obedience to its dictates. What all of these seemingly disparate works
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
that there's an invisible, all-knowing authority who, because of its omniscience, always watches whatever you're doing, which means you never have a private moment, the ultimate enforcer for obedience to its dictates. What all of these seemingly disparate works
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William Lloyd Garrison
American Journalist
Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.
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Martin Seligman
American Psychologist
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.
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Simon Greenleaf
American Judge
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
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Joshua Cohen
American Writer
In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.
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Henry B. Eyring
American Leader
Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.
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George Eliot
British Author
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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Sheila Heti
Canadian Writer
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.
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Sydney Smith
English Clergyman
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
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William Lloyd Garrison
American Journalist
Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.
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Martin Seligman
American Psychologist
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.
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Simon Greenleaf
American Judge
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
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Joshua Cohen
American Writer
In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.
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Henry B. Eyring
American Leader
Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.
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George Eliot
British Author
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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Sheila Heti
Canadian Writer
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.
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Sydney Smith
English Clergyman
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
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