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

    There are possible worlds W and W* sharing the same history up to time t, where no omnipotent agent ever exists in W*, and a contingently omnipotent agent Oscar is omnipotent for the first time at t in W.

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    Contingent/Contingently(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that depends on other conditions and could have been different—the opposite of something that must always be true.
    Modal logic(logic)
    A system of logic that deals with concepts like possibility, necessity, and what could or must be true.
    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

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    omnipotent(Used in the context of arguing about whether multiple omnipotent beings could coexist.)
    A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.
    possible worlds(Leibniz's modal semantics, anticipating contemporary possible-worlds semantics)
    Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized

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    However, a philosopher who has positivistic or naturalistic leanings might argue that one should posit transfinite cardinals of only those sizes required by prevailing scientific theories. Arguably, the prevailing theory of the space-time continuum in physics is committed to the existence of infinite sets which have the cardinality of the set of space-time points contained within such a continuum (which is at least \(\aleph_1\)). If an argument of that sort is correct, this scientific theory is, in addition, committed to the existence of the power set of the foregoing set of space-time points ...

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