The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘The Logic of Relatives’

Term: 
Essential Possibility
Quote: 

Very many writers assert that everything is logically possible which involves no contradiction. Let us call that sort of logical possibility, essential, or formal, logical possibility. It is not the only logical possibility; for in this sense, two propositions contradictory of one another may both be severally possible, although their combination is not possible.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1897). The Logic of Relatives
Date: 
1897
References: 
CP 3.527
Citation: 
‘Essential Possibility’ (pub. 11.08.17-09:42). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-logic-relatives-11.
Posted: 
Aug 11, 2017, 09:42 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Mar 06, 2018, 16:28 by Mats Bergman