10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPOSSIBILITY»
Discover the use of
compossibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
compossibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Alain Badiou: Philosophy and Its Conditions
The suturing to one of its conditions entails the obstruction of truth's circulation for
philosophy and then impedes compossibility: the impossibility of reading the
historical situation. No meaning derives from this reading, since philosophy's task
is ...
2
Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy
and. Law. The notion of compossibility performs two related functions in Leibniz's
philosophy. It helps to explain why not all possibles (possible substances) are
actual: not all possibles are compossible, or such that they can exist together.
Margaret Dauler Wilson, 1999
3
Creative Actualization: A Meliorist Theory of Values
Compossibility as a condition of creative actualization means that no value
accrues without reciprocity with other values. This requirement excludes nuclear
war, destruction of the environment, genocide, and other bad and evil tendencies
.
4
Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time and Space
This, however, is not correct, for this view of compossibility and possible worlds is
too weak to rule out multiple worlds and, a fortiori, multiple time streams. Put
differently, there is nothing internal to this understanding of “world” that prohibits ...
5
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
68 In his discovery of this notion of compossibility Leibniz took great pride, but it
has no definite meaning until we know what the criterion of compossibility is
supposed to be; and about this he has little to say, and that little by no means
clear.
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The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal ...
Fabrizio Mondadori looks for the roots of the central Leibnizian notion of "
compossibility" in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus.
Mondadori maintains that to the scholastic "syntactic" notion of compossibility,
which was a ...
Russell Friedman, L.O. Nielsen, 2003
7
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Metaphysics and its foundations II
1 ('Compossibility of concepts' is standardly taken to mean 'logical consistency of
concepts.'2) Moreover, in choosing a particular world God has not only actualized
a set of individuals, but he has also, and by that very act, established a set of ...
8
Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics
Logical 'compossibility' requires that "requirements of presence or absence" built
into the descriptions of all its individuals be met. (TP 79) Metaphysical '
compossibility' requires (1) that the principle of Identity of Indiscernibles hold
within all ...
Armen Marsoobian, Kathleen Wallace, Robert S. Corrington, 1991
9
Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for ...
bility by requiring the individual to build elsewhere, or that his or her right to build
exists only so long as no disequilibrium occurs among the other flourishers.
Compossibility for us, as we have tried to stress, occurs at the front end. It is
structural ...
Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J.Den Uyl, 2010
10
Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays
But since, via the mirroring principle and the view that each individual substance
exemplifies a complete concept, we get completeness and compossibility, we are
led right away precisely to the view that all things are connected.) Or else, take ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPOSSIBILITY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
compossibility is used in the context of the following news items.
All Hail Shingy, AOLs Goblin King
It is the principle of infinite compossibility—the idea that no two things must rule each other out. That's the same master idea as Shingy has ... «Daily Beast, Nov 14»
Two From Everett Named Outstanding Graduates at Western …
His paper, “In Defense of the Compossibility of Presentism and Time Travel,” was published in the professional journal Logos and Episteme ... «My Everett News, Jul 14»
'Compossibility' And Religious Liberty
The dustup over the recent attempt in Arizona to bolster religious freedom exemptions, aimed especially at laws regarding discrimination ... «The Federalist, Mar 14»
A stroke of genius
“Do you know the word compossibility?” Nouvel asks. I don't. “It is about how you make one move and everything changes. There is only one ... «Financial Times, May 13»
The Rights of the “Human” over the “Non-Human”: The Undeclared …
Yet life-sacrificial tradeoffs are nowhere truly necessary if they are thought through in the light of the life compossibility and coherence ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Dec 11»
