Sentence examples for conception of possibilities from inspiring English sources

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(For discussion of this 'branching' conception of possibilities, and its implications for questions of transworld identity and essential properties, see Brody 1980, Ch. 5; Mackie 1998; Mackie 2006, Chs 6 7; Coburn 1986, Section VI; McGinn 1976; Mackie 1974; Prior 1960).

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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).

But even in this toned down form, the view is up to its ears in metaphysically mysterious necessary connections of the kind that Lewis seems at pains to reject, given his broadly combinatorial conception of possibility.

Finally, the perspectives and challenges of PU composites are suggested, and the conception of potential possibilities to better apply such composites is also presented.

Richard Calvocoressi, former director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, whose long-term friendship with d'Offay brokered the collaboration, hails it as a 'whole new conception of the possibility of public and private partnership'.

If Descartes holds that potential being is strictly speaking nothing, and if his ontology and his commitment to divine immutability, divine preordination, and (his particular conception of) omnipotence bar possibilities from his system, it is not exactly clear what to make of the possibility of mind and body existing in separation.

Mr. Neuborne added that Judge Pettine was among the judges who had a "grand conception" of "what the possibilities of American justice were and what their role was in helping achieve individual liberty and equality".

This is another Boethian conception of necessity and possibility.

If this is correct, then we will be able to make sense of moral requirements, as norms that appropriately govern the reflections of individual agents, only if we expand our conception of the forms and possibilities of practical reason.

Based on a similar technology, KaryoLite-BoBs™ kit allows the identification of aneuploidy for all 24 chromosomes, and can be applied to the analysis of products of conception, among other possibilities.

Because Marxism considers social classes to have objective identities and interests, its conception of class consciousness includes the possibility of its antithesis: false consciousness.

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