possibilism

He subsequently coined the word "possibilism", and it's caught on.

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This is an example of something that comes up in the Actualism/possibilism debate in accounts of practical deliberation.

The History of Utilitarianism Driver, Julia 2009

If the domain of discourse for ˜exists™ is stipulated to consist only of actual objects, (5) is trivial and compatible with possibilism, the position which says that some object is outside the domain consisting of all actual objects; cf. (ii).

Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009

The middle view, possibilism, is indeed an intermediate view.

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics Savitt, Steven 2006

Eternalism too, prima facie, would seem to have trouble accounting for the asymmetries built into possibilism, in addition to its implausible denial of passage.

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics Savitt, Steven 2006

A glance back at Figure 1 reminds us that presentism and possibilism suppose that one plane of simultaneity is uniquely metaphysically important.

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics Savitt, Steven 2006

Page 132, Volume 2 erable interest in analyzing the semantics of environ - mental theory, and the meaning of such words as “en - vironment,” “possibilism,” and “determinism.”

ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968

Century, 3rd ed. (New York, 1957), is an excellent source for nineteenth - and twentieth-century concepts of environ - ment, determinism, possibilism, as well as for French and

ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968

It seemed to Peter that every time he fell asleep it was to the music of proletariat and surplus value and unearned increment, possibilism and impossibilism, political action, direct action, mass action, and the perpetual circle of Syndicalist-Anarchist, Anarchist-Communist,

100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923

It seemed to Peter that every time he fell asleep it was to the music of proletariat and surplus value and unearned increment, possibilism and impossibilism, political action, direct action, mass action, and the perpetual circle of Syndicalist-Anarchist, Anarchist-Communist, Communist-Socialist and Socialist-Syndicalist.

100% : The Story of a Patriot 1920