Keren:

> I'm looking for the Pali word for omniscient, and maybe a
> reference...?

I am coming into this a little late and am surprised that no
one has yet mentioned the Sandaka Sutta (MN 76). This would
surely be the obvious starting point for any discussion of
sabba~n~nutaa in Pali Buddhism.

Jaques:

> I was not writing about omniscience but about the apparent
> paradox of believing at the same time of us as being
> conditioned and free which is typical of Buddhism, and a few
> other philosophies.

If anyone is interested in how this problem has been handled
in western thought, there are four fine articles in the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Timothy O'Connor, _Free Will_
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
Carl Hoefer, _Causal Determinism_
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/
Michael McKenna, _Compatibilism_
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
Randolph Clark, _Incompatibilism_
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/

After reading these you will be ready to tackle Linda
Zagzebski's _Divine Foreknowledge & Free Will_
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/
which is perhaps the one most pertinent to the present
discussion.

Then, if you are still unsatiated, check out the wonderful
collection of papers at The Determinism and Freedom
Philosophy Website
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm

Best wishes,
Dhammanando