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  • noun Plural form of possibilium.

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Examples

  • If ˆ is a quantifier over the domain of possibilia, we can think of the relativized quantifier, ˆ x (E (x) Šƒ ¦) as corresponding to actualist quantification.

    Intensional Logic Fitting, Melvin 2007

  • Similarly, ‘must’ ampliates for possible supposita, for ‘A must be B’ means ‘It is not possible that A not be B’; but contradictories must clearly ampliate in the same way, and ‘It is possible that A not be B’ ampliates for possibilia.

    Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006

  • Three candidates suggest themselves: tropes, Lewisian possibilia, and Meinongian possibilia.

    Divine Simplicity Vallicella, William F. 2006

  • For Leibniz takes God to have created by actualising substances which already exist as possibilia.

    The Identity of Indiscernibles Forrest, Peter 2006

  • Ea enim quae non sunt nec erunt nec fuerunt, a Deo sciuntur quasi eius virtuti possibilia.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Ea enim quae non sunt nec erunt nec fuerunt, a Deo sciuntur quasi eius virtuti possibilia.

    Rough Notes on Scientia Media 2005

  • The marble tablet on the face of the building gives the date of the foundation and this from Roger Bacon: "Naturae secreta et artis possibilia."

    The University of Virginia 1900

  • Quamvis omnia cognoscat Deus, quae suppositis quibusvis conditionibus sunt eventu possibilia; [986] non tamen ideo quicquam decrevit quoniam illud praeviderat aut futurum, aut positis talibus conditionibus eventurum.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Quamvis omnia cognoscat Deus, quae suppositis quibusvis conditionibus sunt eventu possibilia;: [10406] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Manifestum est in æternitate non fuisse aliam potentiam præter Dei nostri omnipotentis, e cujus potentia pendebant omnia possibilia, id est, quæ poterant esse, cum ab ipso fuerint creata.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

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