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Often appears with: the problem of evil and theodicy · the nature and attributes of God · logic, method, and demonstration · divine power · contradiction · angel luke 1:37
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He explains that “absolutely possible” excludes contradictions, so God cannot do self-contradictory things—not due to weakness, but because they lack the nature of possibility.
not incompatible with the subject, as that Socrates sits; and absolutely impossible when the predicate is altogether incompatible with the subject, as, for instance, that a man is a donkey. It must, however, be remembered that since every agent produces an effect like itself, to each active power there corresponds a thing possible as its proper object according to the nature of that act on which its active power is …