Complete Works of Plutarch — volume 3: Essays And Miscellanies
Complete Works of Plutarch — volume 3: Essays And Miscellanies
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There being then these threethings, the power, the powerful, and the possible; before the power canexist, the powerful must of necessity be presupposed as its subject, and the power must also necessarily subsist before the possible. Bythis deduction then may in some measure be understood what is meant bypossible; which may be grossly defined as "that which power is able toproduce;" or yet more exactly, if to this same there be added, "providedthere be nothing from without to hinder or obstruct ...it. " Now of possiblethings there are some which can never be hindered, as are those inheaven, to wit, the rising and setting of the stars, and the like tothese; but others may indeed be hindered, as are the most part of humanthings, and many also of those which are done in the air. The first, as being done by necessity, are called necessary; the others, which mayfall one way or other, are called contingent; and they may both thus bedescribed. The necessary possible is that whose contrary is impossible;and the contingent possible is that whose contrary is also possible.
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