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    It is not the case that Descartes argued in letters to Mersenne that God's omnipotence precedes and grounds necessary truths, meaning God could have made contradictions true.

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    • 1.Contradictions are unintelligible, not merely difficult; 'making contradictions true' describes nothing meaningful and doesn't count as a genuine power.
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    • 2.Descartes himself relies on logical laws in his arguments; his position undermines the rational discourse needed to defend the position itself.
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    • 3.God's omnipotence is better understood as maximal power within the space of logical possibility; power over logical incoherence isn't genuine power but conceptual confusion.
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    • 1.Omnipotence logically requires the ability to do anything, including making contradictions true; limiting God's power to logical constraints contradicts omnipotence.
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    • 2.Necessary truths depend on some foundation; if God exists necessarily and created all else, God must ground even logical laws rather than being bound by them.
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    • 3.Our logical intuitions reflect finite minds; an infinite intellect could coherently operate in ways that appear contradictory from our limited perspective.
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