Glazier | The Contingency of Actuality | Ergo an Open Access

Most philosophers accept Necessity of Actuality: whenever ''actually p'' is true, it is true with metaphysical necessity. The logic that results from rejecting this principle has

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Aristotle''s Natural Philosophy

The actualisation of a property can be the continuation of a previous causal process to the extent that Aristotle claims it is a second actuality, following upon a previously acquired first

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Actualism and Possibilism in Ethics

As has already been discussed, whether actualism, possibilism, or some intermediary view is correct has direct import for various principles in deontic logic, the correct formulation of act

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The Possibilism-Actualism Debate

Although actuality and mere possibility are not always explicitly characterized as distinct modes of being, that actualism is at root simply the denial of possibilism as per Poss and Act is at the core of the

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Aristotle: Substance, Essence, and the Actuality of

Aristotle''s metaphysical work is centered on the notions of substance, essence, and the distinction between potentiality and

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Substance (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Although the focus is on the concept of substance in Western philosophy, which can be traced to Aristotle, some attention is also given to relevant ideas in non-Western philosophy.

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Actuality | philosophy | Britannica

Whatever happens involves some substance or substances; unless there were substances, in the sense of concrete existents, nothing whatsoever

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Actualism > Notes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2020

In this article I will follow the terminology initially fixed by Russell [1903] (§427) and will contrast being with existence and, hence, I will take ''existence'', ''actual existence'', and ''actuality'' (and their

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Understanding Actuality in Philosophy

The concept of actuality is a fundamental idea in philosophy, particularly in the context of metaphysics and epistemology. It refers to the state of being actual or real, as

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Thomas Aquinas

Medieval authors had long puzzled over the relationship between the soul and its powers. Aquinas takes a strong position that would be the subject of much later dispute: that the soul''s

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Aristotle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

These sorts of considerations also incline Aristotle to speak of the priority of actuality over potentiality: potentialities are made actual by actualities, and indeed are always potentialities for

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Aristotle''s Metaphysics

This connects the matter/form distinction to another key Aristotelian distinction, that between potentiality (dunamis) and actuality (entelecheia) or activity (energeia). This distinction is the

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Actuality and Potentiality

Actuality encompasses all the characteristics a thing possesses in reality, which are reflected in its definition. Every thing has the potential to be transformed into something else. The set of

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The Possibilism-Actualism Debate

It is a straightforward exercise to show that, under this definition of actuality, PossC is equivalent to the original definition Poss and that ActC is equivalent to the principle Act * that,

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Actualism

Actualism and possibilism in ethics are two different theories about how future choices affect what the agent should presently do. Actualists assert that it is only relevant what the agent would

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Varieties of Modality

More formally, (P)''s degree of possibility is the higher the closer the closest (P)-worlds are to actuality (also see Lewis 1973a, §2.5; Lewis 1973b, §2.1; Kratzer 1991). Similarly, a

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Aristotle''s Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality in

Aristotle''s philosophical exploration of actuality and potentiality is a cornerstone of his metaphysical framework, serving as essential concepts in his understanding of the nature of

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The Possibilism-Actualism Debate

Actualism is a widely-held view in the metaphysics of modality that arises in response to the thesis of possibilism. To understand the motivations for possibilism, consider

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1.7 Actuality and Potentiality in Aristotle''s Philosophy

Actuality: In contrast to potentiality, actuality is the motion, change, or activity that represents an exercise or fulfillment of a possibility when it becomes

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