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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Potentiality' and 'The Logic of What Might Have Been'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
15769 Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
19028 Possibilities are potentialities of actual things, but abstracted from their location [Vetter]
19010 All possibility is anchored in the potentiality of individual objects [Vetter]
19013 Possibility is a generalised abstraction from the potentiality of its bearer [Vetter]
15779 Possibility is when the necessity of the contrary is false [Aristotle]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 4. Potentiality
15777 A 'potentiality' is a principle of change or process in a thing [Aristotle]
19025 Potentialities may be too weak to count as 'dispositions' [Vetter]
19031 There are potentialities 'to ...', but possibilities are 'that ....'. [Vetter]
15778 Things are destroyed not by their powers, but by their lack of them [Aristotle]
14544 Potentialities are always for action, but are conditional on circumstances [Aristotle]
15774 We recognise potentiality from actuality [Aristotle]
19019 Potentiality is the common genus of dispositions, abilities, and similar properties [Vetter]
19022 Water has a potentiality to acquire a potentiality to break (by freezing) [Vetter]
23705 A potentiality may not be a disposition, but dispositions are strong potentialities [Vetter, by Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
19009 Potentiality does the explaining in metaphysics; we don't explain it away or reduce it [Vetter]
19027 Potentiality logic is modal system T. Stronger systems collapse iterations, and necessitate potentials [Vetter]