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I am indebted to Jasper Hopkins and Billy Joe Lucas for extensive critical comments. Hopkins made an important correction to my definition of maximal omnipotence and Lucas pointed out that the formal proof given does not lead to the conclusion that God cannot exist, unless we replace (1) – (4) by their necessitations.
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Anderson, C.A. Divine omnipotence and impossible tasks: An intensional analysis. Int J Philos Relig 15, 109–124 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00137059
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