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Modern Modalities - Studies of the History of Modal Theories from Medieval Nominalism to Logical Positivism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Modern Modalities - Studies of the History of Modal Theories from Medieval Nominalism to Logical Positivism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 33
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The word "modem" in the title of this book refers primarily to
post-medieval discussions, but it also hints at those medieval mo
dal theories which were considered modem in contradistinction to
ancient conceptions and which in different ways influenced
philosophical discussions during the early modem period. The me
dieval developments are investigated in the opening paper, 'The
Foundations of Modality and Conceivability in Descartes and His
Predecessors', by Lilli Alanen and Simo Knuuttila. Boethius's works
from the early sixth century belonged to the sources from which
early medieval thinkers obtained their knowledge of ancient
thought. They offered extensive discus sions of traditional modal
conceptions the basic forms of which were: (1) the paradigm of
possibility as a potency striving to realize itself; (2) the
"statistical" interpretation of modal no tions where necessity
means actuality in all relevant cases or omnitemporal actuality,
possibility means actuality in some rel evant cases or sometimes,
and impossibility means omnitemporal non-actuality; and (3) the
"logical" definition of possibility as something which, being
assumed, results in nothing contradic tory. Boethius accepted the
Aristotelian view according to which total possibilities in the
first sense must prove their met tle through actualization and
possibilities in the third sense are assumed to be realized in our
actual history. On these presump tions, all of the above-mentioned
ancient paradigms imply the Principle of Plenitude according to
which no genuine possibility remains unrealized."
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