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Winkler (1989, 30-35) and Jesseph (1993, 20-33) mainthat that Berkeley's main argument against abstraction is the argument from impossibility, according to which abstract ideas are impossible because they would be ideas of impossible objects.
It's impossible to combine work and motherhood – I have three children, aged 9, 13 and 16 – but poetry starts from impossibility rather than possibility.
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From impossibilities as such, e.g., 'You know that you are a stone', nothing can follow.
In doing so, the designer encounters many new problems—so many that the limit on the scope of computer systems generally arises neither from laws of physics nor from theoretical impossibility, but rather from limitations of human understanding.
In what follows we will first sketch out a very brief history of the argument, note the two fundamental types of deductive cosmological arguments, and then provide a careful analysis of each, first the argument from contingency, then the argument from the impossibility of an infinite temporal regress of causes.
But that kind of shock arises not from the impossibility of the task, but from the inaccuracy of expectations.
Her most recent battle cry: to defend women from the impossibility of being "the perfect mother," and even from the pressure to be a mother at all.
From the impossibility of an actual infinite series, Wolff concludes, from the existence of a first uncaused cause, that God exists.[100] From the notion of an ens perfectissimum (or most perfect being), Wolff purports to prove God is an ens realissimum (or real existing being).
[Susie Orbach reads an extract from The Impossibility of Sex.
The real humor, and sadness, emerges from the impossibility of this fantasyland.
The telegraphic nature of the book derives partly from the impossibility of telling the stories of all the major Motown artists in a single musical.
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