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Peter Geach

As Descartes himself remarked, nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it some time; I once read an article about an Indian school of philosophers who were alleged to maintain that it is only a delusion, which the wise can overcome, that anything exists at all; so perhaps it would not matter all that much that a philosopher is found to defend absolute omnipotence.

Peter Geach, Providence and Evil: The Stanton Lectures 1971-2, Cambridge, 1977, p. 8