On the other hand, it seems quite wrong to say that W is an impossibility — at any rate, physicalism should not entail that it is impossible.
(Sehgal has acknowledged the impossibility, at this point, of preventing people from taking pictures).
But probably to take control of Greece without a Chaeronea was a real impossibility at this date (or indeed later).
The downside is that, for those two weekends, taking public transportation to or from Long Island will be a hassle at best and an impossibility at worst.
But the Anglo-French rapprochement made recovery of Gibraltar an impossibility at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Aix-la-Chapelle Aix-la-Chapellegthened Spain's position in Italy when Philip became duke of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla.
"Taking the crowd out of it" is a near impossibility at CenturyLink Field, where the decibel count at one recent Seattle home game was measured at 137.6, close to an aircraft carrier's flight deck at take-off time.
As he nears his eighth decade, Mr. Kancheli seems wedded to a quest for childlike innocence that concedes at every turn its own impossibility, at least for someone who has spent most of his long life in the shadow of the Soviet empire.
Breed told me that, for "Biopiracy," which was held in a riverside warehouse in Paris, he had sought to replicate the experience of being in a soundless environment — an impossibility at a fashion show — by having guests take their seats to a barely discernible recording of the warehouse's "room tone," the ambient sound that radio technicians record as a baseline audio setting.
However much he may have wished it, in Das Kontinuum Weyl did not aim to provide a mathematical formulation of the continuum as it is presented to intuition, which, as the quotations above show, he regarded as an impossibility (at that time at least).
