Sentence examples for empirical possibility from inspiring English sources
Don Locke objected that materialists can consistently hold that zombies are possible provided they deny 'the empirical possibility of mere Zombies' (Locke 1976: for recent versions of a similar objection see Section 5 below).
To determine the empirical possibility of a thing, according to Immanuel Kant (1724 1804), it must be ascertained whether the nature of the thing in question conforms to the conditions of actual experience.
The occurrence of a biological trait in all and only the members of a species is an empirical possibility.
Consequently, it is at least an open empirical possibility that mental kinds may correspond to a widely disjunctive and heterogeneous set of neurophysiological kinds, and hence that there is no one-to-one correlation between them.
This allows for the empirical possibility that a number of different physical state kinds underlie the same mental state kind (for more on this, see the supplement on Related Issues (Mental Anomalism and Semantic Externalism)).
Differentiating these roles is important because they highlight the empirical possibility that the effects of brokerage, or its value, change across scenarios - a possibility that is more likely if nodes affiliated to different groups manage different types of information.
The explosiveness comes from a fear that certain empirical possibilities open the door to social and political evils.
But necessary truths rule out no empirical possibilities whatsoever, so this cannot be the informative proposition that is conveyed by Daniels' assertion.
Asserting an identity such as 'Lloyd is I.L. Humberstone' can be genuinely informative, ruling out empirical possibilities previously taken to be live options.
However, based on the empirical possibilities available today and in the near future, this enthusiasm seems somewhat misguided.
It should be noticed that our simulation experiments covered a very small space of empirical possibilities and therefore their results apply only to families very similar to the ones analyzed herein.
