Reforging the Great Chain of Being : Studies of the History of Modal Theories / edited by Simo Knuuttila.
A sports reporter might say that in a competition all the participants realize their potentialities or possibilities. When an athlete performs far below his usual standard, it can be said that it was possible for him to do better. But the idea of fair play requires that this use of 'possible�...
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1981.
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| Series: | Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Gaps in the Great Chain. of Being: An Exercise in the Methodology of the History of Ideas
- Empty Forms in Plato
- Aristotle on the Realization of Possibilities in Time
- Aristotle and the Priority of Actuality
- Anselm's Modal Conceptions
- Time and Modality in Scholasticism
- Leibniz on Plenitude, Relations, and the 'Reign of Law'
- Kant on 'The Great Chain of Being' or the Eventual Realization of All Possibilities: A Comparative Study
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.