Queen's University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2014
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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    Compossibility
    Dissertation, Queen’s University, Kingston ON. 2014.
    This thesis is a study of G.W. Leibniz’s views on compossibility. Leibniz calls substances that can be brought into existence together “compossible,” and he says that substances that cannot be brought into existence together are “incompossible.” Incompossibility and compossibility together divide substances into sets of individual substances that make up possible worlds. God then chooses from these possible worlds the best one to bring into existence. Thus without compossibility, the contingency…Read more