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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"omniscience"”.
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The problem of logical omniscience
As standardly conceived, the problem of logical omniscience is a long-standing, if somewhat nebulous, problem confined to the fields of epistemology and logic. I argue for a broader and deeper conception of the problem than has been previously presented. The problem is broader than widely …
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State Omniscience for Cooperative Local Catalog Maintenance of Close Proximity Satellite Systems
… global system state - a quality known as state omniscience. Most previous related work has focused on the design of such systems under varying assumptions on the graph topology with simplified information fusion schemes. Contrarily, this work introduces characterizations of state omniscience …
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A Close Encounter with Death: Narration in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
… Book Thief</em> often assume the narrator’s omniscience, but I find that Death is crucially <em>not</em> omniscient; rather, he merely performs omniscience to mask his humanlike limitations. Since current terminology falls short of describing Zusak’s narration, I propose the new …
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God’s Foreknowledge – A philosophical investigation
… at once), Omnibenevolence (all-loving) and Omniscience (all-knowing). God’s foreknowledge is a subset of God’s Omniscience and refers to his knowledge of the future. Many authors have discussed this idea and the philosophical soundness of the concept. They include St. Augustine, John Calvin, …
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Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality
… between primary causality (eternal, divine omniscience) and secondary causality (temporal, human experience). This dissertation places specific emphasis on Anselm's De concordia, a treatise in which he seeks to facilitate a clear and rational understanding of how foreknowledge, …
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Essays on closed-end funds : internal versus external management and insider trading
… from insider trading has been ascribed to an omniscience of firm prospects. Due to a known portfolio of assets and little proprietary knowledge, closed-end funds provide a very stable environment in which to examine insider trading. While I do find significant insider trading relative to the …
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Theology and the Narrative Form of the Victorian Realist Novel
… as selective unreliability, direct address, and omniscience can be read alongside theological conversations. I thus argue that the development of the realist novel in the nineteenth century is more closely intertwined with theological thought than narratives of nineteenth-century secularization …
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'n Vergelykende ondersoek na die ooreenkomstige beeldgebruik in "Groot ode" van N.P. van Wyk Louw en Die Heengaanrefrein van Wilma Stockenström
… portrayed as searching for omnipotence through omniscience. A section of the analysis is devoted to extra-textual influences on the two works. Examples of these are: genre expectations, poetic influence and the fact DIE HEENGAANREFREIN was commissioned for a special celebration. Previous …
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The problem of marital violence in Mitchells Plain and its implications for the future of society
… portrayed as searching for omnipotence through omniscience. A section of the analysis is devoted to extra-textual influences on the two works. Examples of these are: genre expectations, poetic influence and the fact DIE HEENGAANREFREIN was commissioned for a special celebration. Previous …
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Developing a theory of the emotional impact of auditory hallucinations: an exploratory study
… likely to endorse the voices' omnipotence or omniscience. Similarities were shown in behavioural responses and factors reported as proof of the voices' potential power. Although it was not possible to explore the associations between the content of voices, affective responses, self-evaluations …
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God and Time: A Neo-Bergsonian Perspective
… divine “causal knowledge” to guarantee divine omniscience.
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An evangelical discourse on God�s response to suffering: A critical assessment of Gregory Boyd�s open theism
… of the attributes of God namely: God�s omniscience, immutability, and omnipotence to give an answer to the theodicy problem. Evangelicals understand the attributes of God to be part of God nature, therefore any changes in the attributes of God means changes to God him/herself. Because of …
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The relation between form and ideology in Doris Lessing's Children of violence
… in the change in narrative focalisation from omniscience to free-indirect speech. The central change in the series is in Lessing's depiction of her protagonist's relationship to Africa. Before Lessing leaves the Party, her protagonist desires a construction of herself as African, after Lessing …
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The Finest Entertainment: Conscious Observation on Film in Adaptations of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and Washington Square
… in the novels, allowing both authorial omniscience into the minds and lives of the characters, as well as the creation of a voyeuristic character through whose perceptions the reader's knowledge is filtered. In examining recent film adaptations of The Portrait of a Lady. The Wings of the …
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Far and Near: Christian Worship of the Transcendent and Immanent God of Wonders
… aseity, sovereignty, constancy, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, and timeless eternality. Chapter 5 considers how God's immanent attributes are rooted in and flow from his transcendent characteristics. Chapter 6 is a Christological reflection on how Jesus Christ--God immanently with …
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Religious Poetry and the Red Dot
… Babylonian mythology poetically celebrates the omniscience of the gods while simultaneously cementing their hold on Babylonian society, and the early Vedas of India, the creation myths of American native cultures, and the complex interwoven Chinese myths of rivers and beasts all leave their …
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The rule of express terms and the limits of fellowship in the Stone-Campbell movement: T. W. Brents, a test case
This study argues that a key to continued unity in the Stone-Campbell movement in the face of T. W. Brents' unorthodox doctrine of limited foreknowledge was likely a consistent application of the rule of express terms. It focuses on the nineteenth century figure, T. W. Brents, who was found to have …
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Padre, perdónalos porque no saben lo que hacen: una perspectiva semi-compatibilista
Si se interpreta la primera palabra de Cristo en la cruz, con referencia a los verdugos que causaron su crucifixión, en clave de omnisciencia divina luterana y ausencia de posibilidades alternativas, surgiría una aparente contradicción en cuanto a la responsabilidad moral y el deber de aquellos: …