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    If omnipotence has no logical exceptions, the fixity of t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The past cannot be changed.

    If omnipotence has no logical exceptions, the fixity of the past is a contingent fact, not a necessary one.

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    • 1.Logical impossibilities (like square circles) don't limit omnipotence; they're not genuine possibilities to actualize.
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    • 2.If the past's fixity were metaphysically necessary, an omnipotent being would face a genuine constraint on power.
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    • 3.A being with unrestricted power should be able to retroactively alter facts unless doing so involves logical contradiction.
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    • 1.Changing the past creates logical contradiction: the past cannot simultaneously have and not have occurred in the same respect.
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    • 2.Omnipotence plausibly means maximal power within logical constraints, not power to violate logic itself.
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    • 3.The fixity of the past grounds our causal understanding; without it, causation itself becomes incoherent, not just inconvenient.
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