possibilium

英语

词源

源自拉丁语。

名词

possibilium (复数 possibilia)

1. (哲学) 可能的事物
   • 2003, Nicholas Rescher, Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities, →ISBN，第 59 页:

     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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   • 2008年4月9日, Peter A. Graham, “A defense of local miracle compatibilism”, 出自 Philosophical Studies, 第 140 卷, 第 1 期, →DOI:

     Now, it is true that both counterfactuals and ability claims can be given analyses in terms of possibilia.

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   • 2011, T Parent, Modal Realism and the Meaning of 'Exist':

     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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   • 2012, J. Ross, The Semantics of Media, →ISBN，第 63 页:

     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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   • 2015, Paul Weirich, Models of Decision-Making, →ISBN，第 215 页:

     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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拉丁语

形容词

possibilium

1. possibilis 的属格阳性/阴性/中性复数