[FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 189, Issue 40

[lrudolph at meganet.net]

> An equation that captures the theory of
> the adjacent possible is available.

I have recently been reminded that Quine, in "On What There Is", posed the
question (presumably rhetorical and/or tendentious; my reminder came in
the form of just the following sentence with attribution but no other
context, and I haven't yet been moved to actually look up that context)
"How many possible men are there in that doorway?"  However many there
are, I presume some are more adjacent than others.  Perhaps Quine's
question should be revived to be about possible girls-next-door.