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Single Idea 22518
[filed under theme 10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
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Full Idea
Actual events are evidently possible, otherwise they would not have occurred.
Gist of Idea
The actual must be possible, because it occurred
Source
Aristotle (The Poetics [c.347 BCE], 1451b18)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.1464
A Reaction
[quoted online by Peter Adamson] Seems like common sense, but it's important to have Aristotle assert it.
The
41 ideas
with the same theme
[general ideas about what is possible]:
15779
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Possibility is when the necessity of the contrary is false
[Aristotle]
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15769
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Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence
[Aristotle]
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22518
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The actual must be possible, because it occurred
[Aristotle]
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20832
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The Master Argument seems to prove that only what will happen is possible
[Diod.Cronus, by Epictetus]
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20790
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A proposition is possible if it is true when nothing stops it being true
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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22142
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In future, only logical limits can be placed on divine omnipotence
[Anon (Par), by Boulter]
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12779
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There is a reason why not every possible thing exists
[Leibniz]
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13084
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How can things be incompatible, if all positive terms seem to be compatible?
[Leibniz]
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5566
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Is the possible greater than the actual, and the actual greater than the necessary?
[Kant]
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18795
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A concept is logically possible if non-contradictory (but may not be actually possible)
[Kant]
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5613
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The analytic mark of possibility is that it does not generate a contradiction
[Kant]
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21410
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That a concept is not self-contradictory does not make what it represents possible
[Kant]
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14786
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Some logical possibility concerns single propositions, but there is also compatibility between propositions
[Peirce]
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22308
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Only the actual exists, so possibilities always reduce to actuality after full analysis
[Russell]
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8361
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What is true used to be possible, but it may no longer be so
[Wright,GHv]
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15782
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Quine wants identity and individuation-conditions for possibilia
[Quine, by Lycan]
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15542
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All possibilities are recombinations of properties in the actual world
[Armstrong, by Lewis]
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10269
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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets
[Putnam]
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5479
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Scientific essentialists say science should define the limits of the possible
[Ellis]
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8554
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Possible difference across worlds depends on difference across time in the actual world
[Shoemaker]
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17059
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Unicorns are vague, so no actual or possible creature could count as a unicorn
[Kripke]
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3697
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The concept of possibility is prior to that of necessity
[Bonjour]
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12653
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There's statistical, logical, nomological, conceptual and metaphysical possibility
[Fodor]
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11963
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What is the truthmaker for a non-existent possible?
[Molnar]
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9212
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Possible states of affairs are not propositions; a proposition can't be a state of affairs!
[Fine,K]
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15568
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When we consider possibilities, there must be something we are considering
[Polt]
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16131
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The metaphysically possible is what acceptable principles and categories will permit
[Lowe]
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4195
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It is impossible to reach a valid false conclusion from true premises, so reason itself depends on possibility
[Lowe]
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7801
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Possibilities can be logical, theoretical, physical, economic or human
[Girle]
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5739
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Sometimes we want to specify in what ways a thing is possible
[Melia]
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8941
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We can't explain 'possibility' in terms of 'possible' worlds
[Fisher]
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14376
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States of affairs are only possible if some substance could initiate a causal chain to get there
[Jacobs]
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14578
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Possibility might be non-contradiction, or recombinations of the actual, or truth in possible worlds
[Mumford/Anjum]
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18824
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Since possibilities are properties of the world, calling 'red' the determination of a determinable seems right
[Rumfitt]
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18828
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If two possibilities can't share a determiner, they are incompatible
[Rumfitt]
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17955
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Possible worlds allow us to talk about degrees of possibility
[Vetter]
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17957
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Maybe possibility is constituted by potentiality
[Vetter]
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19378
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Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory
[Arthur,R]
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19010
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All possibility is anchored in the potentiality of individual objects
[Vetter]
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19013
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Possibility is a generalised abstraction from the potentiality of its bearer
[Vetter]
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19028
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Possibilities are potentialities of actual things, but abstracted from their location
[Vetter]
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