Abstract
The difference between possibility and contingency, and consequently between probability and price, may have ultimately to relate to the most entrenched categories of thought; namely, the one and the many and its correlate, identity and difference. Difference, it seems to me, can have two readings: analogical and intrinsic.
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Ayache, E. (2015). The Thought Behind. In: The Medium of Contingency. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-28656-7_5
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