Logical Possibility

Keyword: Logical Possibility


Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "Reason's Rules"

Logical possibility refers to a state of information in which nothing would be known of positive facts, except so much as is necessary to know the meanings of words and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

Logical possibility is freedom from self-contradiction, explicit or implicit. Thus, a space of four dimensions is logically possible.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/08/2017
Quote from "Logical"

Logical possibility is, according to usage, freedom from all contradiction, explicit or implicit; and any attempt to reform the inaccuracy would only bring confusion.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/08/2017
Quote from "Possibility, Impossibility, and Possible"

Logical possibility: that of a hypothesis not involving any self-contradiction.

Manuscript | Posted 19/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1902 [c.]). Reason's Rules. MS [R] 599

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902], pp. 4-45, 31-42, and 8 pp. of fragments.
The nature of a sign. Propositions as the significations of signs which represent that some...