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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Logic and Epistemology of Causal Relations' and 'Metaphysics'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
What is true used to be possible, but it may no longer be so [Wright,GHv]
Possibility is when the necessity of the contrary is false [Aristotle]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 4. Potentiality
A 'potentiality' is a principle of change or process in a thing [Aristotle]
Things are destroyed not by their powers, but by their lack of them [Aristotle]
Potentialities are always for action, but are conditional on circumstances [Aristotle]
We recognise potentiality from actuality [Aristotle]