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    Supports→Definition (D3) does not unduly limit the power of an omnipotent agent.

    For instance, an omnipotent agent can bring about the state of affairs that in one hour Parmenides lectures for the first time, by bringing about the unrestrictedly repeatable state of affairs that in one hour Parmenides lectures, when this lecture is Parmenides's first.

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    Parmenides
    Parmenides was an ancient Greek philosopher (around 500 BCE) who argued that reality is unchanging and that change and motion are illusions. His radical ideas challenged everyday experience and forced later thinkers to reconsider fundamental questions about existence, making him one of the most influential philosophers in Western history.
    Unrestrictedly repeatable(metaphysics and philosophy of action)
    Something that can be done or happen over and over again without any limits, by anyone at any time.
    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.

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    As intended, (D3) does not require an omnipotent agent to have the power to bring about either impossible or necessary states of affairs, or states of affairs such as (a)–(f). Furthermore, (D3) does not unduly limit the power of an omnipotent agent, since an agent’s bringing about a state of affairs can always be “cashed out” in terms of that agent’s bringing about an unrestrictedly repeatable state of affairs that it is possible for some agent to bring about. That is, necessarily, for any state of affairs, \(s\), if an agent, \(a\), brings about \(s\), then either \(s\) is an unrestrictedly r...

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