Compossibility

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Compossibility is a philosophical concept from Leibniz, for whom the various possible, but mutually contradictory, worlds can coexist -- are compossible -- within the mind of God. ^{[citation needed]}.

Alain Badiou borrows this concept in defining philosophy as the creation of a "space of compossibility" for heterogeneous truths.

Gilles Deleuze uses it in Cinema II taking support from Leibniz's explanation of the futures contingents. He then creates the notion of in-compossible, and drawing on Jorge Luis Borges explains that several mutually contradictory worlds do exist in fact.

[edit] See also

• David Kellogg Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds (1986)
• Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics