Describing the impossible

[Dr H]

I’m not entirely sure what my point is anymore, or if I’m just writing drivel now I should expand more on the god/rock idea, as it will hopefully make clearer what I’m saying. I’ll post about that here soon.

Usually the god/rock thing is used to illustrate the paradox of omnipotence.
If 'omnipotence' is taken to mean "able to do anything", it raises the question as to whether "anything" includes "the impossible".  Linguistically this has to be paradoxical, since self-reference require two mutually exclusive events to be simultaneously present.

The only way out of that I can see is to go meta, and decide that the concept of "omnipotence" is not fully describable with language.  Somehow, that doesn't seem very helpful, though...