Sentence examples for definition of possibility from inspiring English sources

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Instead, we follow a constraint-based modeling approach, in the sense that we do not attempt necessarily to predict the actual fluxes with precision, but rather to distinguish "most possible" from "impossible" flux states, based on a suitable definition of "possibility", a constraint-based model and the available measurements, which in most cases do not include isotopic data.

Diodorus' definition of possibility rules out future contingents and implies the counterintuitive thesis that only the actual is possible.

In Philo's definition of possibility (ca. 300 BCE), the existence of a passive potency was regarded as a sufficient ground for speaking about a singular possibility.

He then acknowledges an alternative definition of possibility according to the modern equivalence, but this plays only a secondary role in his system.

However, because of his definition of possibility, the principle \(A\rightarrow P\) does not generally hold: if it did, then \(N\rightarrow P\) would hold, but on his definition "necessarily \(P\)" and "possibly \(P\)" are actually inconsistent ("possibly \(P\)" entails "possibly not \(P\)").

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Hopefully, most students, faculty and the communities involved in DukeEngage programs have positive experiences that expand the definitions of possibility, health (as in my case), and/or other concepts, and facilitate connections that transform.

You are used to specific definitions of possibility and limited choices, and working cultures that actively discourage entrepreneurial thinking.

Learn that the various dictionary definitions of "possibility" are not broad enough or imaginative enough or playful enough!

Note that interpreting modal operators as quantifiers over possible worlds provides a nice theoretical justification for the usual definition of the possibility operator in terms of necessity, specifically: That is, a sentence is possible just in case its negation isn't necessary.

Leibniz's definition of a possibility is simply a proposition that can be shown to be such that a contradiction will never arise in its analysis.

A natural definition of unawareness on possibility structures is: That is, an agent is unaware of \(E\) provided the agent does not know that \(E\) obtains, does not know that she does not know that \(E\) obtains, and so on.

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