Sentence examples for general impossibility from inspiring English sources

(c) It is also applied where there is general impossibility of any generation such that the thing now is which then was not.

In Part 1 (Arrovian Impossibility Theorems), various aspects of Arrovian general impossibility theorems, illustrated by the simple majority cycle first identified by Condorcet, are expounded and evaluated.

There were stories about a brother's sudden death and a friend's suicide attempt, and the general impossibility of grasping our own inevitable nonexistence.

Virtually every problem our society faces is linked in one way or another to the general impossibility of that well-worn aspiration, the work-life balance.

The mathematical part of this conundrum lies in the general impossibility of satisfying (2.7) for each species, since it would require the specific effective reaction rates F i to be related to each other, and this is unrealistic.

Indeed, classical theoretical computer science results refer to the general impossibility of determining/enforcing properties of programs, such as the well-known theorems by Turing [5] and Rice [6].

This very general ordering of impossibilities, albeit intuitive, may not be fully satisfying.

Kenneth Arrow's "impossibility" theorem or "general possibility" theorem, as he called it answers a very basic question in the theory of collective decision-making.

The Portuguese general, convinced of the impossibility of taking Badajoz by assault, changed his strategy and began a circumvallation of the town, in order to try to isolate it completely.

These extensions and representation theorems allow us to establish an epistemic and very general version of Arrow's impossibility theorem.

In 1799 the Italian mathematician Paolo Ruffini attempted to prove the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals.