Compossibility, Compatibility, Congruity
I argue that the two standard accounts of compossibility—the so-called logical and lawful accounts—are in fact not incompatible, competing solutions to the same problem, but rather complementary solutions to two different problems. Only a version of the s
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Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds
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Gregory Brown • Yual Chiek Editors
Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds
Editors Gregory Brown Department of Philosophy University of Houston Houston, TX, USA
Yual Chiek Department of Philosophy Queen’s University Kingston, ON, Canada
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Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................... 1 Gregory Brown and Yual Chiek n the Source of Incompossibility in Leibniz’s Paris Notes O and Some Remarks on Time and Space as Packing Constraints................. 21 Ohad Nachtomy Leibniz’s World-Apart Doctrine................................................................
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