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    It is not the case that Omnipotence should be analyzed in terms of the power to bring about certain possible states of affairs, understood as propositional entities which either obtain or fail to obtain.

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    • 1.Propositional states of affairs cannot capture agent-relative powers, such as the power to freely choose, which require a willing subject.
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    • 2.Omnipotence historically concerns God's active causal power (potentia Dei absoluta), not merely the obtaining of abstract propositional states.
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    • 3.Reducing divine power to propositional entailment collapses the distinction between God actualizing a state and that state obtaining by necessity.
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    • 1.Aquinas and the scholastic tradition define omnipotence through the ratio of active power, not correspondence to possible worlds or propositions.
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    • 2.If omnipotence is defined by possible states of affairs, then a being that passively enables all such states counts as omnipotent, which is absurd.
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    • This approach can yield an adequate analysis of omnipotence.
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