Posibilitatea posibilităţii. Tipuri de modalităţi la Aristotel
Possibility of Possibility. Aristotle’s Modalities

Summary/Abstract: We try to investigate here the modal iteration of possibility in the philosophy of Aristotle. We want also to clarify the function reserved to the 'possibility of possibility' in his modal scheme, as well in our modern logic and philosophy. In order to emphasise the importance of second order possibility in Aristotle we expose and discuss shortly: 1) the statistical, the temporal and the potential types of modality revealed by J. Hintikka, S. Knuuttila, etc. and 2) the degrees of possibility correlated with these models: the statistical, the temporal and the probabilistic possibility. We -want to suggest that admitting types and degrees of possibility (assumed now by N. Rescher and others) is a great advantage, not only for the exegetical interpretation of Aristotle, but also for the modern theories of possibility.

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