The film gently asserts the possibility that the humanities hold the key to understanding an alien culture – that speaking someone else's language, literally and metaphorically, might be what's required to avert violent disaster.
Intuitively, the axiom of choice asserts the possibility of making a simultaneous choice of an element in every nonempty member of any set; this guarantee accounts for its name.
Let us examine how actualist representationists handle apparent modal truths asserting the possibility of non-actual objects.
In \([\lambda x\,\Diamond P x)](f)\) we are asserting that \(f\) has the possible-\(P\) property, while in \ \Diamond [\lambda x\,P x)](f)\) we are asserting the possibility that \(f\) has the \(P\) property.
The category of the unconditioned within the dharma taxonomy also asserted the possibility of enduring or permanent dharmas, in contrast to all other dharmas that arise and cease through causal interaction.
In addition, this observation bodes ill for the Kantian, insofar as it asserts the possibility of practical agency for those who do not view themselves as diachronically unified, i.e., unified practical agency may indeed not be a practical necessity.
In short, the Virtual Mind argument is that since the evidence that Searle provides that there is no understanding of Chinese was that he wouldn't understand Chinese in the room, the Chinese Room Argument cannot refute a differently formulated equally strong AI claim, asserting the possibility of creating understanding using a programmed digital computer.
The chief objection raised was to what some saw as its highly non-constructive, even idealist, character: while the axiom asserts the possibility of making a number of perhaps even an uncountable number of arbitrary "choices", it gives no indication whatsoever of how these latter are actually to be effected, of how, otherwise put, choice functions are to be defined.
The Strasbourg court has made it plain that where an individual complains of a restriction on freedom of religion in the workplace, it is not enough to assert that the possibility of changing job will negate any interference with the right to freedom of religion.
Like (1), it asserts the general possibility of an individual having a certain property, viz., being a son of Ratzinger — so far so good.
