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Contingency is one of three basic modes alongside necessity and possibility. In modal logic, a contingent statement stands in the modal realm between what is necessary and what is impossible, never crossing into the territory of either status. Contingent and necessary statements form the complete set of possible statements.
Compossibility is a philosophical concept from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.According to Leibniz, a complete individual thing (for example a person) is characterized by all its properties, and these determine its relations with other individuals.
Possibility may refer to: Probability, the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur; Epistemic possibility, a topic in philosophy and modal logic; Possibility theory, a mathematical theory for dealing with certain types of uncertainty and is an alternative to probability theory
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Auxillary words that indicate "possibility" or "necessity." 4. The words in this category precede a four-letter noun (hint: the noun typically refers to a journey or excursion).
Indeterminism is the idea that events (or certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or are not caused deterministically.. It is the opposite of determinism and related to chance.
Logical possibility is a form of alethic possibility; (4) makes a claim about whether it is possible (i.e., logically speaking) that a mathematical truth to have been false, but (3) only makes a claim about whether it is possible, for all Jones knows, (i.e., speaking of certitude) that the mathematical claim is specifically either true or false ...
Pages in category "Possibility" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Condition of possibility;