Perhaps I shall spell this out better, but the impossibility is linguistic. A cleaner example I mention is:
Where “bachelor” means “man who is not married,” God could not create a married bachelor. A married bachelor is not a thing. If you break down the definitions of circle and square, you’ll see that a “square circle” is not a thing. A heavy stone that has no mass (or a heavy stone that is not heavy), or a circle that is not circular, or any other number of direct contradictions seem impossible, not as limits on power, but mostly as limits on language. That’s the point I’m getting at.
Perhaps I shall spell this out better, but the impossibility is linguistic. A cleaner example I mention is:
Where “bachelor” means “man who is not married,” God could not create a married bachelor. A married bachelor is not a thing. If you break down the definitions of circle and square, you’ll see that a “square circle” is not a thing. A heavy stone that has no mass (or a heavy stone that is not heavy), or a circle that is not circular, or any other number of direct contradictions seem impossible, not as limits on power, but mostly as limits on language. That’s the point I’m getting at.