Omnipotence paradox

The omnipotence paradox is a family of related paradoxes, having to do with the question of what an omnipotent being can do. These paradoxes pose the question whether it makes sense to attribute omnipotence to anything, usually a being of some sort, or whether such an attribution is meaningless.

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Thomas Aquinas J. L. Mackie Summa Theologica Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Anselm of Canterbury Semantics René Descartes Dewi Zephaniah Phillips Ludwig Wittgenstein Peter Geach Parliamentary sovereignty Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Ethan Allen Ernst Haeckel Logical positivism Summa contra Gentiles The Day the Universe Changed Russell's Paradox Principles of Philosophy Irresistible force paradox James Gleick The Problem of Pain James Burke (science historian) Elliptic geometry Two + two = five Meditations on First Philosophy The City of God Dialetheism Transcendence (philosophy) Inherit the Wind Paraconsistent logic Theodicy Consistency Problem of evil Non-Euclidean geometry Omnipotence Contradiction Aristotelianism Original sin Abrahamic religion

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