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    It is not the case that Someone who accepts any two of the three propositions has no choice but to reject the third.

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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