OMNIPOTENCE, GAPS, AND CURRY
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https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2022.3796Keywords:
Curry’s paradox, gappy logic, paradox of omnipotence, unrestricted omnipotenceAbstract
In “God of the Gaps: A Neglected Reply to God’s Stone Problem”, Jc Beall and A. J. Cotnoir offer a gappy solution to the paradox of (unrestricted) omnipotence that is typified by the classic stone problem. Andrew Tedder and Guillermo Badia, however, have recently argued that this solution could not be extended to a more serious Curry-like version of the paradox. In this paper, we show that such a gappy solution does extend to it
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