possibilium

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

possibilium (plural possibilia)

1. (philosophy) Something that is possible
   • 2003, Nicholas Rescher, Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities, →ISBN, page 59:

     All mental reference that purports to refer to something does indeed succeed in effecting such reference, although it may be a merely-hypothetical something that is at issue, a possibilium that merely quasi-exists.

   • 2008 April 9, Peter A. Graham, “A defense of local miracle compatibilism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:

     Now, it is true that both counterfactuals and ability claims can be given analyses in terms of possibilia.

   • 2011, T Parent, Modal Realism and the Meaning of 'Exist':

     Whereas, on the “multiverse” interpretation, Modal Realism acknowledges physical possibilities only--and worse, (assuming either axiom S5 or axiom B) each possibilium ends up as a necessary physical existent.

   • 2012, J. Ross, The Semantics of Media, →ISBN, page 63:

     But here we face the particularity problem: that semantics seems to be ruled out by the seeming impossibility of specifying a unique possibilium, using either of the two recognised mechanisms underlying normal reference.

   • 2015, Paul Weirich, Models of Decision-Making, →ISBN, page 215:

     An unrealized option is then a concrete possibilium, the realization it would have if it were realized. An unrealized event may be a possibilium realized in a nonactual possible world and having concrete features, such as a duration.

Latin

Adjective

possibilium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of possibilis