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qui nihil non potest: "who is unable [to do] nothing," i.e., "who can do everything." P.'s argument is coy, but the principle that evil does not really exist and is only the absence of existence was common among Platonists and Christians in this period.
Consolatio Philosophiae, A Commentary. James J. O'Donnell. edited for Perseus. Ariane Schwartz.
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