 He then argued that talk of God’s absolute and ordained power was not about a two-fold power, but two ways of modifying the proposition: “God can produce A.” The proposition “God can produce A from his ordained power,” means that it is possible for God to produce A, and A will be compatible with his existing statutes. The proposition “God can produce A from his absolute power,” means that it is possible for God to produce A (because A in itself entails no contradictory propositions being simultaneously true), and A is not compatible with his existing statutes. God has only one power, which is God himself, and which human beings can understand in two different ways: ordinately and absolutely. (The stricture on propositional existence results from his view, which he shared with Ockham and a number of his contemporaries, that only propositional tokens counted as real propositions capable of producing a logical contradiction.)