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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Reese

The Structure of Possibility

William L. Reese
SUNY of Albany

"For all we know logical possibility is the sufficient condition of ontological possibility."


"…The natural response is to say that in between it had remained an ontological possibility which lacked the conditions necessary for its actualization. Heisenberg made exactly that response to the question where an electron is between orbits. It retreats, he suggested, into possibility, and reactualizes in a different orbit."

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