Sentences with phrase «perfect knower»

The causal determinist maintains that the future relative to any moment is fully determinate at that moment and is predictable on the ground of natural regularities by any perfect knower of the initial conditions and relevant laws.

Thus, it is the cognitive context that shapes Hartshorne's conception of actuality; hence, in the final analysis what anything (including the concrete) is, is what it is as an item of knowledge in the perfect knower.

Can we not define the perfect knower as the one who can know any positive state?

Hartshorne's reply would probably be that since, by definition, God is the perfect knower, and that means there is nothing he can not know, then either total non-being is impossible or the notion of a perfect knower is nonsensical.

That would mean there is only one state that could not be known by the perfect knower — total nothingness.