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Quote by: Yasa  Contradiction. If something has the potential of happening, then it can happen.
I beg to differ. Potential to act means that someone can act, or someone could not act. Should someone know before hand that someone will act, then no longer can that person not act, unless of course the person seeing the future does not indeed know that that someone will act. | Then you just misunderstand the philosophical use of potential. In some schools of philosophy potential being and actual refer to the formal and material being of an object. A phone has the actual being of a phone and the potential being of a desk and a chair and whatever else.
So yes, potential means a person could pick A or B. Even though they will pick A it does not change the fact that B was an option.
"...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |