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Single Idea 16651
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
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Full Idea
If someone says 'God could make straightness without a line, and roughness and lightness in weight without parts', …then show me the reason why God can do whatever does not imply a contradiction, yet cannot do these things.
Gist of Idea
God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts
Source
Peter Auriol (Sentences [1316], IV.12.2.2), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 11.4
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.219
A Reaction
How engagingly bonkers. The key idea preceding this is that God can do all sorts of things that are beyond our understanding. He is then obliged to offer some examples.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[contradictions in our concept of a supreme being]:
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1719
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In Empedocles' theory God is ignorant because, unlike humans, he doesn't know one of the elements (strife)
[Aristotle on Empedocles]
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2630
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If Plato's God is immaterial, he will lack consciousness, wisdom, pleasure and movement, which are essential to him
[Cicero on Plato]
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2645
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Why shouldn't the gods fear their own destruction?
[Cicero]
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16651
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God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts
[Auriol]
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6224
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An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't
[Cudworth]
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21252
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Perfections must have overlapping parts if their incompatibility is to be proved
[Leibniz]
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2920
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A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity
[Nietzsche]
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18978
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It is hard to grasp a cosmic mind which produces such a mixture of goods and evils
[James]
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5208
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A person with non-empirical attributes is unintelligible.
[Ayer]
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3459
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You can only know the limits of knowledge if you know the other side of the limit
[Searle]
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8055
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If God is omniscient, he confronts no as yet unmade decisions, so decisions are impossible
[MacIntyre]
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7602
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In the Bible God changes his mind (repenting of creating humanity, in the Flood)
[Armstrong,K]
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16427
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Presumably God can do anything which is logically possible
[Chalmers]
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10332
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Omniscience is incoherent, since knowledge is a social concept
[Kusch]
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9122
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God cannot experience unwanted pain, so God cannot understand human beings
[Sorensen]
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3874
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How could God know there wasn't an unknown force controlling his 'free' will?
[PG]
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3873
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An omniscient being couldn't know it was omniscient, as that requires information from beyond its scope of knowledge
[PG]
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