Hume's Dialogues establish that no coherent account has been given of how omnipotence, omniscience, and perfect goodness mutually constrain rather than contradict one another at the metaphysical level.
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(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
omnipotence(Bruno's theological framework)
God's primary attribute as designated by the Apostles' Creed, entailing that all possibilities are actualized
omniscience(The passage tests omniscience against mathematical undecidability)
The property of knowing everything; used here to probe whether divine knowledge extends to undecided mathematical propositions.
perfect goodness(Disambiguation clarifying that perfect goodness in this context means moral goodness specifically, not goodness in some other sense)
Perfect moral goodness, understood as a perfection attributed to an absolutely perfect being