siti
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I'm not sure that's quite right...omniscience is knowing absolutely everything about absolutely everything...if a playwright knew absolutely every detail of the plot, characters, set, props - absolutely everything in minute detail before he even sat down to 'wright' the play - would he still have "free-will" as he wrote? And if he changes the play as he goes along then presumably he didn't have complete knowledge of it beforehand - even if he does after.The above is like saying the playwright does not have free will over what happens in his play. I would say he does.
“The finished portrait is explained by the features of the model, by the nature of the artist, by the colors spread out on the palette; but, even with the knowledge of what explains it, no one, not even the artist, could have foreseen exactly what the portrait would be, for to predict it would have been to produce it before it was produced - an absurd hypothesis which is its own refutation.” ~ Henri Bergson