Plenitude implies that everything possible is actual. The continuity principle asserts that each object shares at least one attribute with its neighbor, and the linear gradation principle states that objects form a hierarchical order from the lowest forms of existence to the ens perfectissimum.
Plenitude implies that everything possible is actual. The continuity principle asserts that each object shares at least one attribute with its neighbor, and the linear gradation principle states that objects form a hierarchical order from the lowest forms of existence to the ens perfectissimum. Thus, according to Plotinus in his Enneads, the best possible world will be one that contains the greatest possible variety of objects, including all possible evils. For ten points name this scale of  existence popularized in the 20th century by Arthur O. Lovejoy.
Plenitude implies that everything possible is actual. The continuity principle asserts that each object shares at least one attribute with its neighbor, and the linear gradation principle states that objects form a hierarchical order from the lowest forms of existence to the ens perfectissimum.
the {GREAT CHAIN OF BEING}