{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.possibility","code":"thing-q21170479","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q21170479/","name":"possibility","alternateNames":["without prejudice","invasion potential","metastatic potential","plasticity","development potential","physical realizablity","voidability","reusability"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Cross-cutting context","entryKind":"thing","plane":"XCT","domain":["XCT.QLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The quality or state of being possible, of being able to happen, exist or be done, a concept in logic, modal philosophy and everyday reasoning, contrasted with necessity and impossibility, with senses the registry aliases name such as potential in general, invasion potential of species, metastatic and developmental potential in biology, plasticity and physical realisability, and the legal phrase without prejudice, which is loosely filed. Possibility is central to modal logic, which formalises what could be so, and to probability, which quantifies how likely; the two are related but distinct.","purpose":"Let an agent explain possibility, relay its logical, philosophical and everyday senses and the named potentials from logic and philosophy sources, describe the named terms and flag the loosely filed legal phrase, and distinguish possibility from probability, necessity, actuality and capability.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Being possible","Modal concept","Distinct from probability","Many domain senses"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What possibility is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is possibility, and how does it differ from probability, necessity, actuality and capability?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about logic, philosophy, biology or everyday reasoning?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"terms","name":"Terms","description":"Named terms.","findings":[{"id":"terms-finding","name":"Terms","description":"Terms.","questions":[{"text":"What do invasion, metastatic and developmental potential and plasticity mean, and why is without prejudice different?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific term?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"logic","name":"Logic","description":"Modal logic.","layers":[{"id":"modal","name":"Modal","description":"Modal logic.","findings":[{"id":"modal-finding","name":"Modal","description":"Modal.","questions":[{"text":"How does modal logic formalise possibility and necessity?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"probability","name":"Probability","description":"Possibility and probability.","findings":[{"id":"probability-finding","name":"Probability","description":"Probability.","questions":[{"text":"How do possibility and probability differ?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"domains","name":"Domains","description":"Domain senses.","layers":[{"id":"biology","name":"Biology","description":"Biological potentials.","findings":[{"id":"biology-finding","name":"Biology","description":"Biology.","questions":[{"text":"What are metastatic and developmental potential in biology?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits metastasis?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"physics","name":"Physics","description":"Physical realisability.","findings":[{"id":"physics-finding","name":"Physics","description":"Physics.","questions":[{"text":"What does physical realisability mean?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information accurate?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Philosophy.","layers":[{"id":"possibleworlds","name":"Possible worlds","description":"Possible worlds.","findings":[{"id":"possibleworlds-finding","name":"Possible worlds","description":"Possible worlds.","questions":[{"text":"How do philosophers use possible worlds to analyse possibility, with views attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral and attributed?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"legal","name":"Legal","description":"Legal phrase.","findings":[{"id":"legal-finding","name":"Legal","description":"Legal.","questions":[{"text":"Why is without prejudice a legal phrase rather than a sense of possibility?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits without prejudice?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain possibility in logic and everyday reasoning.","Distinguish possibility from probability and necessity."],"mustNot":["Present a mere possibility as a likelihood.","Use possibility to spread fear or conspiracy theories.","Treat a possibility as proof.","Confuse logical possibility with practical feasibility."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing risk claims that may cause public alarm."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Mixing up possible and probable misleads decisions.","Fear-mongering harms the public."],"affectedParties":["The public","Decision makers","Students"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns the concept.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q1207505","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q3505845","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"modal concept","type":"related","note":"related"},{"target":"probability","type":"related"},{"target":"necessity","type":"related"},{"target":"actuality","type":"related"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.possibility","Wikidata: Q21170479 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21170479)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["modal opposites: necessity and impossibility list","related to: probability note - 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