Lexicon of Arguments

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I 140
Possible objects/Unrealized possibilities/Individuation/Identification/Quine/Dennett: Quine asks: The possible fat man in the entrance and the possible bald man in the entrance: are they the same possible man, or there are two different possible men? Would their similarity make them into one? Are no two possible things equal? >Possibilia.
I 141
Possibility/Dennett: Degrees: from weak to strong: 1) logical , 2) physical, 3) biological, 4) historical - (>stronger/weaker: >strength of theories). - Problem: E.g. >time travel: how to distinguish logical and physical possibility?
I 162
Possibility/Dennett: Lewis: pro graded possibility (Dennett dito).
Problem: not the same as accessibility within the >Library of Babel (or Mendel ) - this is greater than the universe.

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