LessonsThe Seven Compound Modalities and the Negations of Permanence and NecessityQuiz

«كل إنسان ضاحك بالإمكان الخاص»
A human may laugh, by special possibility.

«ولا شيء من الإنسان بضاحك بالإمكان الخاص»
And a human may fail to laugh, by special possibility.

Special possibility does not mean that one person is both laughing and not laughing at exactly the same time in the same respect. Laughter is not essential to humanity, nor is the absence of laughter essential.

This distinguishes either outcome being possible from both contradictory outcomes being simultaneously true.

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The Seven Compound Modalities and the Negations of Permanence and Necessity

«كل إنسان ضاحك بالإمكان الخاص»
A human may laugh, by special possibility.

«ولا شيء من الإنسان بضاحك بالإمكان الخاص»
And a human may fail to laugh, by special possibility.

Special possibility does not mean that one person is both laughing and not laughing at exactly the same time in the same respect. Laughter is not essential to humanity, nor is the absence of laughter essential.

This distinguishes either outcome being possible from both contradictory outcomes being simultaneously true.