Обещания на възможното
Promising the Possible

Summary/Abstract: The present text proposes a new way to tackle the metaphysics of modality, which is based on the concept of “actualized possibility”. It is organized as follows: (§1) scrutinizes the traditional reductive approaches to the concept of possibility; (§2) proposes reasons to accept the thesis that the possibility-talk is correlative to the discourse about causes and reasons; (§3) examines the conceptual apparatus of promise theory; (§4) utilizes this apparatus in order to explicate twelve different “agent modalities”; (§5) discusses the connection between these agent modalities and the classical “system” modalities. The thesis that the text aims to substantiate is that the agent modalities (which relate possibilities to capabilities) are basic and ontologically charged.

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