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    If Damian does not share the assumption that restoration of virginity consists in removing past events, the two questions in De divina omnipotentia can be treated and answered separately

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    Damian(as a historical philosopher referenced in the discussion)
    Damian of Alexandria was a Christian theologian from the 6th century who wrote about how God's power works—specifically, he argued that God's power should be understood as working *through* reason and logic, not against them.
    De divina omnipotentia(the title of the work being analyzed)
    Latin for 'On Divine Omnipotence'—a famous medieval text that asks tough questions about what God's unlimited power actually means.

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    Removing past events(one possible interpretation of how restoration of virginity could work)
    The idea that God could erase or undo something that already happened, as if it never occurred—one way of thinking about what omnipotence might mean.
    omnipotence(Bruno's theological framework)
    God's primary attribute as designated by the Apostles' Creed, entailing that all possibilities are actualized
    restoration of virginity(Used to analyze the logical implications of Damian's theological claim about divine omnipotence)
    The removal of those events in a woman's past that are incompatible with her being a virgin

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    There is a curious feature in Damian’s idea about restoring virginity. Damian talks about kinds of restoration of virginity that do not require any interfering with past events (see Section 4). This is significant because it ruins our constructed argument for the claim that Damian has to deny the universal validity of the principle of non-contradiction (above, steps [1]–[5]). If Damian does not share the assumption that restoration of virginity consists in removing some events in the past (ste

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