The Argument from Potential: A Reappraisal

Several criticisms of the argument from potential are reported. It is noted that such criticisms are inspired by two similarly wrong interpretations of potentiality, one confusing it with possibility and another with probability. A brief analysis of the original Aristotelian context in which the con...

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Main Author: Reichlin, Massimo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1997
In: Bioethics
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-23
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