Epistemic Modal Logic, Universal Philosophical Epistemology, and Natural Theology: God's Omniscience as a Formal-Axiological Law of the Two-Valued Algebra of Metaphysics as Formal Axiology (Demonstrating the Law by “Computing” Relevant EvaluationFunctions) | Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science. 2021. № 61. DOI: 10.17223/1998863X/61/1

Epistemic Modal Logic, Universal Philosophical Epistemology, and Natural Theology: God's Omniscience as a Formal-Axiological Law of the Two-Valued Algebra of Metaphysics as Formal Axiology (Demonstrating the Law by “Computing” Relevant EvaluationFunctions)

The method of constructing and investigating discrete mathematical models is applied to the problem of Omniscience-by-God, which is located at the intersection of epistemology, theology, and epistemic logic. For the first time in epistemology and philosophical theology, the tenet of God's Omniscience is formulated by the artificial language of two-valued algebra of metaphysics as formal axiology, and demonstrated as a formal-axiological law of that algebra by “computing” relevant evaluation-functions.

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empirical-knowledge, a-priori-knowledge, God's-omniscience, algebra-of-metaphysics-as-formal-axiology, formal-axiological-law

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Lobovikov Vladimir О.	Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences	vlobovikov@mail.ru

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