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    For the same reason that an omnipotent agent is not requi... — Carmelics
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    Supports→An omnipotent agent is not required to be able to bring about impossible or necessary states of affairs.

    For the same reason that an omnipotent agent is not required to bring about (b) or (c), that agent is also not required to be able to bring about impossible or necessary states of affairs.

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    Bring about(as used in causation and action theory)
    To cause something to happen or to make something true through your own actions.
    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
    impossible states of affairs(things that violate basic logic and cannot happen under any circumstances)
    Situations or conditions that cannot possibly exist or be true (like a square circle).

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    necessary states of affairs(things that are true by their very nature and cannot fail to exist)
    Situations or conditions that must always be true and cannot be otherwise (like all bachelors being unmarried).
    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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    However, a philosopher who has positivistic or naturalistic leanings might argue that one should posit transfinite cardinals of only those sizes required by prevailing scientific theories. Arguably, the prevailing theory of the space-time continuum in physics is committed to the existence of infinite sets which have the cardinality of the set of space-time points contained within such a continuum (which is at least \(\aleph_1\)). If an argument of that sort is correct, this scientific theory is, in addition, committed to the existence of the power set of the foregoing set of space-time points ...

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