Sentence examples for impossibility according from inspiring English sources

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.

"This is an axiomatic impossibility, according to Esquire!" she writes.

To hold that much toxin, the tiny newts would be one part toxin to nine parts skin a near physical impossibility, according to Hanifin.

To Dr. Everett, Pirahã was a clear case of culture shaping grammar — an impossibility according to the theory of universal grammar.

According to the P.G.R.'s hypothesis, Montemayor said, the September 27th bonfire had reached an unlikely temperature of sixteen hundred degrees centigrade, yet photographs taken in the days after the alleged blaze show abundant grassy growth along the area's peripheries, an impossibility, according to the scientist, after such an intense fire.

Instead, he argued that a molecule was a theoretical impossibility according to 19th century physics, which could say nothing about how atoms can hold together but could give many reasons why they couldn't be stable entities over reasonable periods of time.

Cartesian intuition also tends to certify the possibility of scenarios containing zombies, thinking rocks, entirely disembodied minds (not even embodied in ectoplasm), and so forth all impossibilities, according to the functionalist.

The tenets of the philosophical schools are the subject of several essays for instance, "Platonic Questions," "On the Creation of the Soul in the Timaeus" (expounding Plutarch's views about Plato's teaching on the soul), "Against Colotes" (attacking Epicurean views), and "On the Impossibility of Living Pleasurably According to Epicurus's Teaching"; several other essays criticize Stoic doctrines.

But according to the impossibility of identifying all effective factors and modeling their interactions parametrically, analytical methods do not provide good performance generally.

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live other than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life," says Leo Tolstoy.

According to Scotus, impossibilities are incompossibilities between possible ingredients, such as Socrates's sitting at a certain time and Socrates's not sitting at that same time (Lect. I.39.1 5, 62 63; Ord. I.35, 32, 49 51; Ord. I.36, 60 1; Ord. I.43, 5 7, 14).