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• W126318973 abstract "weather tomorrow is altogether impossible. What is possible is that it will either snow or not snow. If Mr. Weiss refers to further traits with respect to which snow is indeterminate, such as moist or dry, my answer is the same. The snow that actually falls will be one or the other. A pure snowiness that is neither cannot fall. Hence when we say snow is possible tomor row, we do not mean the abstract genus alone by itself, but rather the genus as including any one of many possible differences. It is not the pure genus, but the genus with one of these differences and one of further subdifferences that is really possible. It is true that our understanding of real is always incomplete and generic. But this is due not to any real possibility of realizing an abstract genus in nature. It is due rather to the limits of our knowledge. Furthermore, we recognize this by our use of concrete nouns, open to further determinations we do not yet exhaustively know, or do not know at all. Thus HaO is not possible tomorrow. This is an indeterminate abstraction. What is possible is something fully concrete and determinate: i.e., rain (not raininess). All real are internally determinate, though we know only certain of their abstract aspects. When such a possibility is realized, nothing is added in the order of essence. What is added is the act of existing. This makes not a specific difference, but all the difference?between not existing and existing. 6. I also object to Thesis 13, which violently and arbitrarily restricts the range of possibilities. Since Mr. Weiss holds the possibility to be indeterminate, he must now explain the source of the determination which is always really present in the actual entity. This, he says, is a action. Let us assume this. But then what is the modal status of the determinate features of this free act before it is performed? Mr. Weiss denies that they are really possible (12). What is not really possible is impossible and will never happen. Therefore, a free act must realize what is impossible? How will Mr. Weiss deal with this question? I certainly cannot. 7. I cannot accept Thesis 14, with which freedom, as I con ceive it, is radically incompatible. Such an act is one that I might This content downloaded from 157.55.39.55 on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 05:18:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms COMMENTS ON WEISS'S THESES 675 not have performed. This means that my non-performance was really possible before I made the choice. But I decided against this. Hence it will never be realized. But it was a real possibility (before I decided) or else I was not free. I infer from this thesis that Mr. Weiss does not believe in any genuine freedom of choice such as I have been describing. This freedom requires selections out of a range of possibilities which Mr. Weiss denies. 8. I am not clear as to the meaning of Thesis 15. But since I do not believe that any possibility is realized necessarily (in the strict sense of this term), I cannot accept it as it stands." @default.
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