Very sensible. I never could understand why people made such a fuss about whether the tree made a sound or not. (The best answer I saw was a cartoon of the fallen tree saying quietly to itself, “Oh, shit.”)
Perhaps this also has relevance to the classic omnipotence paradox—“Can an omnipotent being (or God) create a rock so heavy that that being can’t lift it?” Since few people want to redefine omnipotence (if we did, we’d soon want another word that meant what “omnipotent” used to), the answer is simple: the omnipotent being will be able to create such a rock, and then just lift it anyway, while still being unable to.
It doesn’t make sense, but the thing is, it doesn’t have to. The words “omnipotent”, “rock”, “heavy”, “can’t”, still mean what we understand them to mean. And we understand pretty well what “paradox” means, too. A paradox is obviously a problem for human reason, but would be no problem at all for divine omnipotence.
Very sensible. I never could understand why people made such a fuss about whether the tree made a sound or not. (The best answer I saw was a cartoon of the fallen tree saying quietly to itself, “Oh, shit.”)
Perhaps this also has relevance to the classic omnipotence paradox—“Can an omnipotent being (or God) create a rock so heavy that that being can’t lift it?” Since few people want to redefine omnipotence (if we did, we’d soon want another word that meant what “omnipotent” used to), the answer is simple: the omnipotent being will be able to create such a rock, and then just lift it anyway, while still being unable to.
It doesn’t make sense, but the thing is, it doesn’t have to. The words “omnipotent”, “rock”, “heavy”, “can’t”, still mean what we understand them to mean. And we understand pretty well what “paradox” means, too. A paradox is obviously a problem for human reason, but would be no problem at all for divine omnipotence.