"possibilium" meaning in 英語

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Noun

Forms: possibilia [plural]
Etymology: 源自拉丁語。
  1. 可能的事物
    Sense id: zh-possibilium-en-noun-snAzatNl Topics: philosophy
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Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2003, Nicholas Rescher, Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities, →ISBN,頁號 59:",
          "text": "All mental reference that purports to refer to something does indeed succeed in effecting such reference, although it may be a merely-hypothetical something that is at issue, a possibilium that merely quasi-exists."
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          "ref": "2008 April 9, Peter A. Graham, “A defense of local miracle compatibilism”, 出自 Philosophical Studies, 卷 140, 期 1, →DOI:",
          "text": "Now, it is true that both counterfactuals and ability claims can be given analyses in terms of possibilia."
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          "ref": "2011, T Parent, Modal Realism and the Meaning of 'Exist':",
          "text": "Whereas, on the “multiverse” interpretation, Modal Realism acknowledges physical possibilities only--and worse, (assuming either axiom S5 or axiom B) each possibilium ends up as a necessary physical existent."
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          "ref": "2012, J. Ross, The Semantics of Media, →ISBN,頁號 63:",
          "text": "But here we face the particularity problem: that semantics seems to be ruled out by the seeming impossibility of specifying a unique possibilium, using either of the two recognised mechanisms underlying normal reference."
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          "ref": "2015, Paul Weirich, Models of Decision-Making, →ISBN,頁號 215:",
          "text": "An unrealized option is then a concrete possibilium, the realization it would have if it were realized. An unrealized event may be a possibilium realized in a nonactual possible world and having concrete features, such as a duration."
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