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    Supports→An omnipotent agent ought not to be required to have the power to bring about state of affairs (f).

    An omnipotent agent ought not to be required to have the power to bring about a state of affairs that is identifiable with or analyzable as a conjunctive state of affairs one of whose conjuncts is not possibly brought about by anyone.

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    Conjunctive state of affairs(describing how this particular state is composed of multiple parts)
    A situation made up of multiple separate conditions or facts that all must be true at the same time (like connecting things with 'and').
    Conjuncts(the three separate conditions being listed in this analysis)
    Individual parts or conditions that are joined together; think of them as separate claims connected by 'and'.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor

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    Related propositions within the same area of thought.
    omnipotent(Used in the context of arguing about whether multiple omnipotent beings could coexist.)
    A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.
    ought(Deontic logic and normative theory)
    A strict (all-or-nothing) deontic modal, treated as a propositional operator
    possibly brought about(whether something is logically achievable)
    Able to be caused or created by someone under any possible circumstances.
    state of affairs(Chisholm 1970)
    A genus of which both events and facts are treated as species, used to capture their close ontological kinship without fully identifying them.

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    Lastly, although (f) is unrestrictedly repeatable, (f) is another type of complex state of affairs. In particular, it is identifiable with or analyzable as a conjunctive state of affairs. This state of affairs has three conjuncts, the second of which is not possibly brought about by anyone. The conjunctive state of affairs in question can be informally expressed as follows: Plato decides to write a dialogue; and there is no antecedent sufficient causal condition of Plato’s deciding to write a dialogue; and there is no concurrent sufficient causal condition of Plato’s deciding to write a dialog...

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