That's known possibilities of retrospect.I’d say we do have experience of possibility, of an indirect sort: the sense that things could have been different and the often unpredictable nature of events. — AJJ
That wouldn’t fit my understanding of each view in this context. Nominalism denies possible worlds exist apart from the world, conceptualism denies they exist independently of contingent minds and realism claims they exist objectively in the abstract. Beyond thinking about them it seems possible worlds that remain only potential are inaccessible on each view. — AJJ
That's known possibilities of retrospect.
That's what Conceptualism focuses on - missing links via rearrangement. Hence it views Past and Present.
Whereas Nominalism focuses entirely on the Present, disregarding not experienced rearrangements.
In simple terms:
Nominalism is merely an accounting. Present
Conceptualism mixes and matches. Dealing with present and past. — Shamshir
As established, they cannot.Nominalism and conceptualism can accept possibilities all they want, but they don’t to my knowledge give adequate accounts of them. — AJJ
It isn't.to account for conceived possibilities is to account for those we haven’t conceived as well, i.e. they’re being accounted for in general, not case by case. — AJJ
As established, they cannot. — Shamshir
But I wish to ask, do you mean as in if there are conceived possibilities it follows that there are unconceived ones as well? — Shamshir
This is why we say, by the way, that nominalists about abstracts/abstractions reject that there are any real abstracts. ("Real" there amounts to "objective" or "external to mind.") — Terrapin Station
Internal to mind, meaning aspect, which includes retrospect. — Shamshir
You said they reject the external to mind. — Shamshir
And the future is an external to mind abstract. — Shamshir
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