I just wrote, in part:
> I'm not sure we should consider an omniscient being as one who
> "establishe[s] by a preponderance of the evidence".  E knows, beyond
> all doubt, without considering any evidence: evidence doesn't come
> into it.  In fact, eir consideration of any evidence would just muddy
> the waters, opening up a possibility of a result that e knows to be
> false.  Thus, even if there is such a being, arguably "the alleged
> infracter can't be established by a preponderance of the evidence to
> have committed the infraction", so that you should be considered
> forgiven and the CFJ should be judged FALSE.

Lemme be both clearer and more succinct:  Such an agent not only
*doesn't* consider evidence (as I said above) -- more to the point, e
*cannot* establish, *by evidence*, that you rolled a 3.  E knows it,
but cannot establish it by evidence.

Yours,

msh210

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