Sentence examples for envision possible from inspiring English sources

We can envision possible worlds in which gold has different characteristics from gold as we know it, but one cannot imagine a possible world in which gold's atomic number is not 79.

That unreliability, he said, prompts a question about evolution: "Why is our brain made in such a way that we form false memories?" No one knows, he said, but he wonders if it has to do with the creativity that allows humans to envision possible events and combinations of real and imagined events in great detail.

Scenarios are a way to envision possible futures (Gallopín et al.1997) and have become ubiquitous notably in the fields of climate change and natural resources research.

If appropriate, could the model be applied as a tool to envision possible future developments for prototypical higher educational institutions in Europe?

For instance, when trying to identify a persons home, "we envision possible future attacks in which the true geo- graphic location of a user is leaked by showing maps or landmarks with increased accuracy".

In the present work, we study the anatomical evolution of the frontal gland in imagoes of 10 genera and 13 species of Rhinotermitidae and Serritermitidae, which allows us to envision possible scenarios of frontal gland evolution in termites.

It is about envisioning possible futures and creating general awareness of trends and future issues by building scenarios, forecasting, technology assessment and different types of future studies.

(2) They both are set in an early stage of the development envisioning possible futures for individual places and the city as a whole.

We therefore need to start thinking strategically about place making by both envisioning possible alternative futures and designing interventions to facilitate the most desirable ones.

Even though predictions are often judged post-factum in terms of their (non)occurrence, a fundamental credo in Futures Research is that a prediction should only serve to help envisioning possible futures.

A model in which actors were not fixed to the upper row of the matrix but could be for example flexibly connected to condition categories to which they contribute would better enable envisioning possible actor interrelatedness.