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Omnipotence seems to entail omniscience, at least in the following way: If omnipotence is the ability to do anything (w/ the usual caveats), then it includes the power to learn anything. But omniscience doesn't entail omnipotence in the same way, so it's logically possible, I guess, that a being could be omniscient but not omnipotent. But could it be totally impotent? I doubt it, in the strict sense, since the ability to continue existing is a potence. But only exist, just to watch with no ability to affect anything? I don't see any logical inconsistency here.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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