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[–] jlou@mastodon.social 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Self-referential paradoxes are at the heart of limitative results in mathematical logic on what is provable, so it seems plausible a similar self-referential statement rules out omniscience.

Greek gods are gods in a different sense than the monotheistic conception of god that is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. Sure, so the argument I give only applies to the latter sense.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

That's not a paradox though, it's a silly logic puzzle that isn't hard to solve. It doesn't prove or disprove anything about omniscience or gods.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Man I don't know if I'll ever get over seeing Mastodon toots on Lemmy and all of the other wild cross-fediverse fun the Fediverse enables

[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 1 points 40 minutes ago

I didn't notice until you said something. Wild.