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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

14377	Possibilities are manifestations of some power, and impossibilies rest on no powers [Jacobs]
	Full Idea: To be possible is just to be one of the many manifestations of some power, and to be impossible is to be a manifestation of no power.
	From: Jonathan D. Jacobs (A Powers Theory of Modality [2010], §4.2.1)
	A reaction: [This remark occurs in a discussion of theistic Aristotelianism] I like this. If we say that something is possible, the correct question is to ask what power could bring it about.