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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy' and 'Intensions Revisited'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
15769 Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
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]
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]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals
6882 Counterfactuals presuppose a belief (or a fact) that the condition is false [Mautner]
6886 Counterfactuals are not true, they are merely valid [Mautner]
6885 Counterfactuals are true if in every world close to actual where p is the case, q is also the case [Mautner]
6884 Counterfactuals say 'If it had been, or were, p, then it would be q' [Mautner]
6883 Maybe counterfactuals are only true if they contain valid inference from premisses [Mautner]