Date:     Thu, 14 Mar 1996 22:06 EST
From: 044724240-AT-ucis.vill.edu
Subject:  Re: No Ideas but in Things



Yes, Aden, I like it very much, if only because it makes sense out of
my aversion to granting possibility to Howie in the sense I thought he
was using it--modally--while letting me have the word as D uses it.  Now,
the why of not wanting to grant modal possibility was that it seems to
require, at least in alot of modern thinkers, an efficacious will to get us
from the possible to the actual.  This seems to get us into the difficulty
that the will thus becomes simply, and unrelated to what is already there
calling it forth: and so the whole thing seems to be tied up with the inside/
outside problem I originally refered to.  I know that what I just wrote was 
one big conceptual leap after another:  but I wonder if it still makes any
sense?  

Ed

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