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I love this argument by Avram Grumer that purports to solve the Can God create a rock so large he cannot lift it? paradox. (Summary: Sure he can! Just have him whip up a universe containing nothing but a single unit of molecular carbon, or some other smallest-possible-"rock" of your choice. No matter how you move it around, it will be the gravitationally lowest point in the universe, and therefore unliftable. QED.)

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When asked, "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?", Abraham Lincoln was purported to reply, "Four. Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg."

Likewise, calling a non-omnipotent being "omnipotent (in the sense of Aquinas)" does not make it omnipotent when "the sense of Aquinas" means precisely "non-omnipotent".

Why yes, I am feeling particularly pedantic this morning! :-P