“Jim is a possible for the new opening in marketing.”
possibilist
(philosophy) Someone who advocates possibilism, the position that things do not need to actually exist in order to have properties.
(socialism, historical) A socialist who advocates focusing on small, achievable forms of immediate progress rather than an all-or-nothing commitment to revolution.
“These themes are that modal operators are intelligible in their own right and that actualist quantifiers are to be taken as basic with respect to possibilist quantifiers.”
postulator
A person who postulates something as the basis of an argument.
“New actualism is a powerful and elegant solution to the problem of possibilism.”
“And, depending on one's tolerance for possibilia, this leads either to possibilism or one of its ersatz variations.”
“According to proponents of model-theoretic actualism, the fallacy of both ersatzism and possibilism is the inference that things must work in largely the same way with regard to Kripke models.”