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Paradox excluded

Paradox, much beloved by critics of the faith and heretics, intentionally poses a question hard to answer. Can God create a rock so heavy that he cannot lift it? The purpose is, of course, to say God is hemmed in: not capable of just anything he chooses. Score one for doubt. The above question is the same as the question of what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. That is supposed to be an impressive question, but it has never happened, so it is only interesting to collectors of the pathological proposition type known as the paradox. I do not say paradox is paradoxical, for infinite recursion is a circular argument. Paradox, as I said at the outset, is a question hard to answer, or more properly, impossible to answer in its presented form. I would like to alert my readers to something very important about any paradox. No paradox can be a part of a logical argument. A paradox cannot have a truth value. That is the very reason it is a paradox. Thus it can