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The incompatibility of God’s existence and omnipotence

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  1. For another discussion of this paradox see George I. Mavrodes, “Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence,Philosophical Review, 72 (1963), and C. Wade Savage, “The Paradox of the Stone”,Philosophical Review, 76 (1967).

  2. See Fred Sommers, “Predicability”,Philosophy in America, edited by Max Black (New York, 1967).

  3. Sommers,op. cit. “Predicability”,Philosophy in America, edited by Max Black (New York, 1967). p. 272, and my “Vacuosity”,Mind, forthcoming.

  4. See Fred Sommers, “What We can Say About God”,Judaism, 15 (1966); Paul C. Hayner, “Analogical Predication”,Journal of Philosophy, 55 (1958); and Michael Durrant, “God and Analogy”,Sophia, 8 (1969).

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Englebretsen, G. The incompatibility of God’s existence and omnipotence. SOPH 10, 28–31 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02804211

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