Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The possibility of existing or being together.
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- noun The quality of being
compossible .
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Examples
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However, for Badiou, it is not simply a question of registering the truth of these praxis, but rather of thinking the compossibility of these truths in a historical present.
Philosophy facilitates the wayfarer’s subsistence Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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However, for Badiou, it is not simply a question of registering the truth of these praxis, but rather of thinking the compossibility of these truths in a historical present.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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This compossibility of truths is essentially a fractal concept.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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This compossibility of truths is essentially a fractal concept.
Philosophy facilitates the wayfarer’s subsistence Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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To think the compossibility of truths is to think this fractal pattern within truths across heterogeneous domains of praxis.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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One of the things I like most about Badiou is his thesis that the goal of philosophy is to think the present, or to grasp the compossibility of those truths that are both eternal but are the essence of the present...
Archive 2009-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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To think the compossibility of truths is to think this fractal pattern within truths across heterogeneous domains of praxis.
Philosophy facilitates the wayfarer’s subsistence Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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One of the things I like most about Badiou is his thesis that the goal of philosophy is to think the present, or to grasp the compossibility of those truths that are both eternal but are the essence of the present...
Destiny and becoming Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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In other words, the “lesson” is the joint-realizability or compossibility of all of these things, so long as one has perfectly planned out and coordinated her various goals.
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From this, it should also be clear that the compossibility of substances in a world is another manifestation of Leibniz's thesis of the universal harmony of perceptions of substances.
Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics Look, Brandon C. 2008
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