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    Challenges→Flint and Freddoso's account of omnipotence does not provide a logically necessary condition on omnipotence.

    The world-type framework individuates an agent's power relative to histories, so Oscar's world-type in W already encodes his omnipotence, making (e) properly excluded rather than an overlooked lacuna.

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    • 1.World-types encode intrinsic agent properties across all accessible histories, so omnipotence at W is properly constitutive of Oscar's nature.
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    • 2.If (e) were merely overlooked, it would represent a genuine modal gap in Oscar's powers—but world-type individuation closes all such gaps by design.
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    • 3.Exclusion via framework structure avoids ad hoc stipulation better than post-hoc explanation of lacunae.
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    • 1.Encoding omnipotence in world-types assumes the relevant notion of power is already settled—but (e)'s status depends on how 'power' itself is defined.
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    • 2.A framework can exclude options without justifying the exclusion; structural closure ≠ philosophical legitimacy of what's excluded.
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    • 3.If (e) satisfies all criteria for genuine possibility except framework membership, calling it 'properly excluded' begs the question against it.
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    Key Terms

    Histories(the different possible versions of reality the Mentaculus evaluates)
    In physics, all the possible ways the universe could have unfolded over time, treated as distinct possibilities we can compare.
    Individuates(God individuates each monad)
    The act of making something distinct and separate as its own unique thing.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    lacuna(used in formal philosophy and logic)
    A gap, missing piece, or hole in reasoning or explanation.
    omnipotence(Bruno's theological framework)
    God's primary attribute as designated by the Apostles' Creed, entailing that all possibilities are actualized
    power(Reid's argument linking planned conduct to agency)
    The causal capacity required to both conceive and execute planned conduct.
    world-type framework(used in modal logic and metaphysics)
    A way of organizing possible situations or scenarios to understand what an agent (a person or being) can do in different circumstances.

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