David Malet Armstrong - A combinatorial theory of possibility (1989)

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The Naturalist theory of possibility now to be advanced will be called a Combinatorial theory. It traces the very idea of possibility to the idea of the combinations — all the combinations — of given, actual elements.

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Philosophers have not found it easy to sort out sets.

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Set theory is peculiarly important... because mathematics can be exhibited as involving nothing but set-theoretical propositions about set-theoretical entities.

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