Dynamis

This book offers a new and original hypothesis on the origin of modal ontology whose roots can be traced back to the mathematical debate about incommensurable magnitudes which forms the implicit background for Platos later dialogues and culminates in the definition of being as dynamis in the Sophist. Incommensurable magnitudes also called dynameis by Theaetetus are presented as the solution to the problem of nonbeing and serve as the cornerstone for a philosophy of difference and becoming.