This compossibility of truths is essentially a fractal concept. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
To think the compossibility of truths is to think this fractal pattern within truths across heterogeneous domains of praxis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [In reply to a reply by J.H. Huebert and Walter Block] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Where for Leibniz compossibility refers to the interdependence of all events in the unity of a universe, for Badiou compossibility refers to the unity of truths in the eternity of the present shades of Kierkegaard’s notion of the present, here. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
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