What is "omniscience"

Usage examples of "omniscience".

Second, its account of events comes to us through a narrator who at times assumes authorial omniscience but who is also presented as partial, not fully informed, and limited in understanding.

Since all authority and government are based on force, the master class, with its burden of omniscience, faces the servile class, with its burden of nescience, precisely as a highwayman faces his victim.

Divinity, guided by his omniscience of the innocence of the brave, or the guilt of the presumptuous, points the barbed spear, and gives a triple edge to the shining steel.

O music, sweetest, sublimest ideal of Omniscience, first-born of God, fairest and loftiest Seraph of the celestial hierarchy, Muse of the beautiful, daughter of the Universe!

Many details were known, not only to the two dukes who were about to patch up the ministry between them, but to the political world at large,--and where facts upon which the newspapers were able to display their wonderful foresight and general omniscience, with their usual confidence.

Our instrument of knowledge persists in handling even such openly negative terms as the Absolute, the Infinite, as though they were real existences, and when the negative element is ever so little disguised, as it is in such a word as Omniscience, then the illusion of positive reality may be complete.

They have made no approach to that omniscience which constitutes the great marvel of our own daily press.

At such moments she was relentless, she was temperamental, she wasn't taking calls, outside communications were filtered through the only two individuals who could or would dare to speak to her during production: her personal assistant, Elsie, a smaller, compacter, darker version of Freya who seemed instinctively to dislike everybody, and Rags, her husband, a spectral presence in leather pants and stainless steel glasses ("Nazi goggles," Freya called them), his large bony nose the subject of the usual jokes, the odious peat-bog aroma of his ever-present black cigarette enhancing the general aura of disquieting omniscience with which he distanced fans and followers.

When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been able to produce in millions of years.

I could imagine don Balthazar spinning in his molten grave as I gave up long-term memory for the transient satisfaction of implant omniscience.

The logical reconciliation of Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnibenevolence is the thorniest problem in theology, one causing even Jesuits to break their teeth.

At least that loony, Howling, had been shipped out, which gave the planet one score against the Powers That Be, as the locals called the company in all its omniscience.

And Ecdyon, despite his association with Stylaster, was less likely to be in a position of omniscience than I, with my proximity to Charlot.

You stopped believing in Father Christmas, tooth fairies, paternal omniscience.