The phrase "are merely possible" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is only a possibility and not a certainty or reality.
Example: "The outcomes of the experiment are merely possible and depend on various factors."
Alternatives: "are simply potential" or "are just conceivable".
The study emphasized, however, that these outcomes are not inevitable; they are merely possible if sufficient effort isn't put into countering the problems.
One solution is to abandon actualism and accept that there are merely possible objects.
Still, sentences like Alien are true and so there are merely possible worlds at which ∃x¬A∃y y=x) is true.
The argument that the truth of Aliens requires that there are merely possible individuals quite naturally imports this truth definition to the truth of a quantified sentence at a merely possible world.
Rather, in addition to things like us that actually exist, there are merely possible things — possible Aliens, for example — that could have existed, but, as it happens, do not.
Therefore neither Copernicus' nor Ptolemy's view can be true though one may be judged simpler than the other because both are merely possible hypothetical interpretations of the same relative motions.
Accordingly, they constitute the world's "fixed form" (2.022 3): the character of any possible world is constrained by the objects because all possible atomic states of affairs are configurations of them (On Wittgenstein's conception of possibility, the notion of an "alien" Tractarian object — one which is merely possible — is not even intelligible).
And we must execute murderers as long as it is merely possible that their execution protects citizens from future murder".
Aristotle in his Poetics insisted that literature should reflect nature that even highly idealized characters should possess recognizable human qualities and that what was probable took precedence over what was merely possible.
The questions readers ought to ask when confronting a "what-if" as opposed to "what-is" article are: Does the writer make it clear what is known, what is probable, and what is merely possible?
In this kind of video game, often described as an "open world" game, there is a difference between action that is required by the game in the course of the narrative and the action that is merely possible within the bounds the game; this further complicates the question of whether the capacity for some types of play should be removed.
