Indeed, List and Pettit (and others) have proved several impossibility theorems in which reasonable-seeming combinations of constraints are shown to be jointly unsatisfiable (List and Pettit 2011: 50; List and Pettit 2002).
Morrison: You've written a book, The Impossibility of Sex, in which you take imaginary clients and describe the experience of being a therapist.
The impossibility theorem considers cases in which three or more agents make a collective choice from three or more alternatives in situations as diverse as democratic voting, establishing public policies that reflect social welfare, and the marketplace.
The impossibility of pointing to any way in which defendants' rights were prejudiced by this, assuming it was error, is enough to indicate that the trial judge was correct, see United States v. Center Veal and Beef Co., 2 Cir., 162 F.2d 771, 771.
However, as I delved into economist James Galbraith's new book, Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice I became convinced of the impossibility and injustice of the situation in which Greece now finds itself, as the country negotiates its financial fate with the German government, the EU and the IMF.
The Times in London called it "a wonderful and clever tour de force, in which improbabilities and impossibilities disappear, under an air that is irresistible".
Suiya's sense of degradation illustrates, with candour, the impossibility of female dignity in the society in which she finds herself.
One shortcoming was the impossibility of applying a strict new-user design, in which no changes of specific anchor agent would be tolerated, because of the small number of eligible persons.
Goldmann, a Marxist, held that tragedy in the modern epoch was an impossibility: one was either a Christian or a Marxist, in which case eventual happiness was inevitable – either in the afterlife or in some ideal society of the future.
Note that this impossibility assumes the most "benign" type of fault, the crash fault, in which one process simply stops to produce any output given any input.
