The Importance Of Procedural Knowledge

In deducing the mere logical possibility of a God, it is important that one first delves into exactly what characteristics this being is said to have; mainly what is it this being can and cannot do. Religions touting a singular entity, God, to be their creation of the world, hold several interesting beliefs with regard to the characteristics of such a being; God is Omnipotent, omniscient, and is morally perfect. Religions holding a singular God to be responsible for creation, have a similar belief, in that God, in his perfect goodness, used his powers of omnipotence, created a world, which he knows everything about, as he is also omniscient. Some of these characteristics have very clear consequences attached to them, leading to incoherence …show more content…
Knowledge may take three possible forms, propositional knowledge (knowledge of true facts), procedural knowledge (knowledge of how to do), and finally knowledge by acquaintance (knowledge acquired by experience). God is said to be incorporeal, consisting of energy, such as that of a spirit, rather than physical existence. Such a stipulation does not cohere with two of the aforementioned forms of knowledge, which require a physical being in which to experience knowledge relating to such things. Procedural knowledge requires an experience of a task, such as riding a bike, and knowing the physical experience of riding a bike. Knowledge by acquaintance knowledge requires experiencing the physicality of a person, place, thing, or concept, such as that of knowing the feeling of hunger. Both seem to be forms outside the possibility of God, as such a being lacks any possible physical embodiment to experience such things (Martin 2010). A possible argument is that God is able to experience physicality through a connection with his creation, which does not mean God is committing any acts through creation, but simply experiencing it through some form of link. One may also point out infinity, in that existence is infinite, and God could not possibly possess infinite knowledge, as there is always more to know, leaving no one piece unknowable, but leaving the entirety unattainable (Martin 2010). Such an argument seems to echo that of an extreme view of omnipotence, in that since it is impossible for any being to know infinite knowledge. Perhaps it is unreasonable to place such a stipulation upon the definition, and perhaps it would be better to define omniscience as the ability to know any single piece of information, such a being wishes to know. This would seem to cohere to an idea that God is omniscient, in the sense he has vast knowledge, and can know any