🧩 Philosophy 9h ago · Maria Popova

How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust

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How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust
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“What are we, anyway, at our best, but one small, persistent cluster in a greater ferment of human activity — still and forever turning toward, tuned for, the possible,” Adrienne Rich wrote in her classic Arts of the Possible while the field of counterfactuals was emerging in theoretical physics as the science of the possible.
Everything that is possible is in some sense real, because behind every “what if” is the “if/then” of a causality tethered back

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