The portmanteau terms compossible and embrangle are similarly in the line of fire. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Things are compossible insofar as they can coexist in the same subject. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Wolff] Reference
If the premises of a valid argument are possible and compossible, then the conclusion is possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
If the premises of a valid argument are contingent and compossible, then the conclusion is contingent. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
But, insofar as these possibles conflict among themselves, it is clear that not all possibles are compossible. From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics] Reference
Since existence is a mode or reality for Wolff, existence is considered to fall within the class of compossible realities. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Wolff] Reference
What were compossible goods have now become incompossible, and a valuable option (e.g., keeping one's money) has become essentially foreclosed. From Wordnik.com. [Coercion] Reference
Let us say that two or more substances are compossible if and only if there is no contradiction between the predicates derivable from their CICs. From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics] Reference
Since all finite things are contingently actual, their alternatives are possible with respect to the same time, though these are not compossible with what is actual. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Modality] Reference
Since finite beings are contingently actual, alternative possibilities are possible with respect to the same time, though they are not compossible with what is actual. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Future Contingents] Reference
Certainly many instances of coercion make one's choices less appealing than they would be otherwise, or reduce the quality of the compossible options one has available. From Wordnik.com. [Coercion] Reference
(Again, the “existence” of the other possible world is meant only to imply that there is some set of compossible essences that include the Caesar-counterpart who does not cross the Rubicon.). From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics] Reference
As such, they express desires or wishes, and desires and wishes can, in a sense, be inconsistent with one other, namely when they are not (in Russell's phrase) ˜compossible˜, that is, when they cannot both be realized. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Hence the realization of all possibilities would have to consist in the realization of all that are compossible i.e., simultaneously compatible, or perhaps it involves the successive realization of incompatible possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [The Angels and Us] Reference
˜Would that everybody desired that not-X!™, and the desires expressed by these two optatives are not compossible, or at least, are only compossible on the condition that we all have inconsistent desires (both for X and for not-X). From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
It's impossible to stay off the slope of preferences regarding interactions with others, and impossible to roll the whole way down the hill because, in a diverse society, our preferences will vary and aren't compatible or compossible. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob T. Levy] Reference
Third, selves or individuals, rather than being closed upon the compossible and convergent world they express from within, are now torn open, and kept open through the divergent series and incompossible ensembles that continually pull them outside themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Gilles Deleuze] Reference
For another example, notice that the ability to make enforceable contracts with others greatly enhances one's abilities to gain through cooperation, but that it relies precisely on the fact that contracting parties give up certain seemingly compossible benefits (say, gaining the goods of another while failing to fulfill one's half of the bargain). From Wordnik.com. [Coercion] Reference
In the phraseology of Sir William Hamilton, the two vocations are "non-compossible.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
In the phraseology of Sir William Hamilton, the two vocations are “non-compossible.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Because the scopes are compossible, it's much easier to add calculations to the various slices of stories that the system needs. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder Development] Reference
A number of public figures in Britain have stepped forward to champion specific words, hoping to demonstrate they are compossible (possible in coexistence) with everyday speech. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
But since there’s nothing special about me (a thought rare in Rand) on this score, I have to acknowledge that if I’ve got such a right, everyone does, and so rights have to be compossible and universal. From Wordnik.com. [What’s the Matter With Ayn?] Reference
Cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous. From Wordnik.com. [Club Troppo] Reference
Though such a view might seem consistent with Leibniz's Principle of Plenitude ” that the universe is as full as possible ” and his Law of Continuity ” his denial that nature makes leaps (GM 6: 240) ” it is inconsistent with his view that not everything possible exists, but only what is compossible with other existents, and Leibniz held no such view in any case. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Leibniz] Reference
296/RB 296) It would seem, then, that Leibniz has something like the following in mind: experience informs us of a certain consistent set of sensible properties in, for example, gold; that is, a certain set of properties is compossible. From Wordnik.com. [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] Reference
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