Introduction

Kristina Engelhard

pp. 1-11

in: Kristina Engelhard, Michael Quante (eds), Handbook of potentiality, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

"The world is full of threats and promises' (Goodman 1983, 40); not only do we want to know which threats and promises there presently are, but also which ones there will be—maybe to a certain degree of certainty—in the future.