You didn't have to tell him they'd found some possibles did you?
The transition is startling from this conception of Philosopher as a very high kind of man of the world, to the definition of Philosophy as "the science of possibles quâ possibles.
She sways the queenly scepter of the past Above the waymarks of a hundred realms; Yet leaves but hints of the grand overcast, Through which she burns her way, and overwhelms Our thoughts with all the possibles of time.
By this means the divine Wisdom distributes all the possibles it had already contemplated separately, into so many universal systems which it further compares the one with the other.
For all possiblesare regarded as objects of power, but actual and existing things are regarded as the objects of his decretory will.
When God acts in accordance with his wisdom, he is guided by the ideas of the possibles which are his objects, but which have no reality outside him before their actual creation.
God would have chosen a sequence of possibles where all these evils would be excluded.
For in the region of the possibles they are represented as they are, namely, as free contingencies.
But the background of the first way is the static One, while in the second way it means possibles in the plural, genuine possibles, and it has all the restlessness of that conception.
But most possibles are not bare, they are concretely grounded, or well-grounded, as we say.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "possibles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
