Addressing this, Reid says it is impossible that "a triangle should really exist which has no precise proportion of sides and angles" and, generally, it is "impossible that any being should exist which is not an individual being" (EIP 5.6, 396).
So I can't, of course, say it's impossible that any elected element might be acceptable to the House of Commons.
The most important English Renaissance statement concerning comedy is that of Sir Philip Sidney in The Defence of Poesie (1595): Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which [the comic dramatist] representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which [the comic dramatist] representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
If church and state will "each of them contain itself within its own bounds, the one attending to the worldly welfare of the commonwealth, the other to the salvation of souls, it is impossible that any discord should have happened between them".
So long as "the world is under a wise and benevolent administration, it is impossible, that any man should … be a loser by doing his duty".
Note that Hume is here supposing that, in our idea of the relation between cause and effect, the "tye or connexion … which binds them together" is necessary ("it is impossible that any other effect could result").
Since the life in which one becomes a Saint is one's last life, it is impossible that any actions that occur after Sainthood is attained could project future existence through karma.
"So it is impossible that any one of the volunteers will contract Ebola from the vaccine".
Because God causes everything to be, it is impossible that any created thing exists except through Him.
