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    Someone who accepts any two of the three propositions has... — Carmelics
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    Someone who accepts any two of the three propositions has no choice but to reject the third.

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    • 1.The set of propositions is logically inconsistent.
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    • 2.At least one proposition in the set must be false.
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    • 1.Apparent logical inconsistency may dissolve under semantic revision: 'omnipotence' need not entail the ability to override libertarian free will.
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    • 2.If omnipotence is coherently defined as 'power to do all logically possible things,' then God's inability to coerce free agents is no limitation at all.
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    • 3.Accepting all three propositions then becomes consistent, and no forced rejection follows—Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense establishes this explicitly.
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    • 1.The claim assumes classical two-valued logic, but dialetheism permits true contradictions, meaning all three propositions could simultaneously hold.
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    • 2.Graham Priest's paraconsistent logic provides a formally rigorous framework in which inconsistent proposition sets need not force rejection of any member.
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    If this set of propositions is logically inconsistent, as it surely is, then at least one proposition in the set is false. In no way does it follow, of course, that only one proposition in the set is false, and neither does it follow that at least two of them are true. But if someone does accept any two of these propositions, as virtually every mainline Christian theologian does, then such a person has no choice but to reject the third.[1] It is typically rather easy, moreover, to determine which proposition a given theologian ultimately rejects, and we can therefore classify theologians acc...

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