possibilium

plural possibilia

1. human sciencesSomething that is possible

   Now, it is true that both counterfactuals and ability claims can be given analyses in terms of possibilia.

   2008 April 9, Peter A. Graham, “A defense of local miracle compatibilism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI

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   All mental reference that purports to refer to something does indeed succeed in effecting such reference, although it may be a merely-hypothetical something that is at issue, a possibilium that merely quasi-exists.

   2003, Nicholas Rescher, Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities, →ISBN, page 59

   Whereas, on the “multiverse” interpretation, Modal Realism acknowledges physical possibilities only--and worse, (assuming either axiom S5 or axiom B) each possibilium ends up as a necessary physical existent.

   2011, T Parent, Modal Realism and the Meaning of 'Exist'

   But here we face the particularity problem: that semantics seems to be ruled out by the seeming impossibility of specifying a unique possibilium, using either of the two recognised mechanisms underlying normal reference.

   2012, J. Ross, The Semantics of Media, →ISBN, page 63

   An unrealized option is then a concrete possibilium, the realization it would have if it were realized. An unrealized event may be a possibilium realized in a nonactual possible world and having concrete features, such as a duration.

   2015, Paul Weirich, Models of Decision-Making, →ISBN, page 215