Sentence examples for bare possibility from inspiring English sources

Congress, he said, "took speech rights of 250 million Americans and turned them into the private property of foreign authors, all on the bare possibility that might put more money in the pocket of some U.S. authors".

Did we in our heart, accept our own mortality even enough to deny the bare possibility of living the round & unreal year of 2000, when Mars may be a summer resort, & tombstone carvers must master a new pair of digits?

It reflects at least a bare possibility.

Cleanthes retorts that Demea denies the facts, and offers only empty hypotheses, which, if intelligible at all, could only establish their bare possibility, but never their reality.

Still, even allowing the bare possibility of atheistic virtue was exceedingly controversial in Shaftesbury's day (not the least because it was commonplace to hold that duties to God constituted a significant part of virtue).

In an influential discussion, Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin (1991) argue that philosophers of science have invested even the bare possibility that our theories might have empirical equivalents with far too much epistemic significance.

Fighting has engulfed residential areas, destroying the barest possibility of normal life, and the impact has been particularly grave for women and children, whose most basic rights are being infringed daily.

She finally concludes that "it is possible to map only the barest possibilities for [Aspasia's] life".

So a plausible free will theodicy of hell requires more than the bare logical possibility that (RH) is true.

He insisted that finding reductive unity there was more than a bare logical possibility because of some parallels between biological processes, whose multiply realized kinds find reductive unity there, and cognitive activity (especially learning).

The intent is to single out p from an undifferentiated mass of ideas that remain bare epistemic possibilities.