Indeed - I was hoping that he would define omnipotent in this way.
I quite deliberately did not define it as "able to do anything which is not logically impossible", my arguement is that logic impossiblities are not things, they are nonentities, they are nonsenses. So by nature of not being things, they don't enter into the question of "able to do anything". There is no such thing as a square circle, so a statement about any-thing are not about it.
I am aware of that solution, I was waiting for him to suggest it then I was going to ask whether or not the inhabitants of heaven do have free will :0)
Ahem. I think I'll need you to tell me what this free will is you speak of before I answer such a question (also would be nice to know in your view of the world, do you think you have it now?). I suspect I may completely reject your concept of free will, but that might depend on how you define it.
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Re: This year's CICCU Main Event - DIRECTION
Date: 2005-02-06 11:47 pm (UTC)I quite deliberately did not define it as "able to do anything which is not logically impossible", my arguement is that logic impossiblities are not things, they are nonentities, they are nonsenses. So by nature of not being things, they don't enter into the question of "able to do anything". There is no such thing as a square circle, so a statement about any-thing are not about it.
I am aware of that solution, I was waiting for him to suggest it then I was going to ask whether or not the inhabitants of heaven do have free will :0)
Ahem. I think I'll need you to tell me what this free will is you speak of before I answer such a question (also would be nice to know in your view of the world, do you think you have it now?). I suspect I may completely reject your concept of free will, but that might depend on how you define it.