What do you call a contradiction that spawns another contradiction?
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In the doctrine of the Trinity, it is claimed that there are 3 persons in the one God.
The defining characteristics of God are omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence and omnibenevolence.
Under intense questioning, the proponent agrees that each person is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omnibenevolent, and each person has a unique identity an independent will.
Therefore, that's 3 Gods, not 1 God. 3 Gods <> 1 God, hence contradiction #1
2 omnipotent co-existing beings is logically impossible (omnipotent is a superlative, and only 1 superlative is logically possible), therefore contradiction #2
Contradiction #1 and contradiction #2 are both spawned from the original claim.
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3There's no specific name as far as I know.
It's just contradictio in adjecto (conflicting conditions)
The Fallacy of Inconsistency is also known as an internal contradiction. It occurs when a person asserts two or more propositions that cannot both be true at the same time and in the same respect—restated more simply, holding two or more beliefs that cannot be true when considered together.
I always to say start at the very beginning. The first thing I notice is that using dictionary definitions of omnipotent and omniscient, we find these two concepts are mutually exclusive. So whatever it is the folks are discussing, that thing cannot be both and they need to define their terms.
I would say just an opinion and a way to rationalize what they believe. Also Their is more than one Trinity doctrine and not all accept the 3 in one belief.
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As far as I have understood the doctrine, the "omni's" mean "all" rather than "most," so it would not be a problem to have one or more omnipotent persons. Besides that, I agree with RE (his name is too difficult to keep writing!) that it would be conflicting conditions .