A Conversation for How to Be a Philosopher

Anything is possible

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Andrew Wyld [kt:'Burning Pestle', kp:'Mutamems, Ideodiversity', Zaph.]

If God can create a stone he can't lift and can also lift it, we have a logical contradiction -- and hence, as a well-known result in propositional calculus, anything is possible -- which was the premise the question was designed to test anyway. I love logic! It's so *broken*!


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