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Throughout the apodeictic syllogistic, Aristotle works with a definition of possibility according to which ‘what is possibly so’ is the same as ‘what is not necessarily not so’.
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Rini, A. (2010). Contingency (A13, A14). In: Aristotle's Modal Proofs. The New Synthese Historical Library, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0050-5_11
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