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    It is not the case that Pairs of coexistent God-like omnipotent agents are impossible.

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    • 1.Perfect rational agents facing equally good options may be subject to Buridan's Ass indeterminacy, rendering neither agent capable of acting at all.
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    • 2.If neither omnipotent agent can actualize any world due to symmetric indifference, no contradiction between their wills arises, and coexistence remains logically coherent.
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    • 3.Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason, applied to perfectly rational agents, entails convergence on identical choices rather than divergence, dissolving the reductio.
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    • 1.Richard Swinburne argues that omnipotence is best understood as the power to do anything logically possible for a being of one's nature, not absolute maximal power.
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    • 2.Under this conditional construal, two omnipotent agents could have mutually consistent domains of sovereign action, as Aquinas allowed for ordained versus absolute power distinctions.
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    • 3.If omnipotence is domain-relative or conditionally scoped, the reductio presupposes an absolute conception that is neither the only nor the most defensible account of divine power.
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    • 1.For any possible pair of coexistent God-like omnipotent agents, one member of that pair could endeavor to actualize a different, equally good, world than the other member, even given their hypothesized necessary epistemic, moral, and aesthetic perfection.
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    • 2.A reductio ad absurdum has been presented showing that such a scenario leads to contradiction.
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