Sentence examples for impossibility necessity from inspiring English sources

Modal logic, by contrast, is concerned with different "modes" of truth — possibility, impossibility, necessity and the like — and the words that convey them.

Philo and Diodorus each considered the four modalities possibility, impossibility, necessity and non-necessity.

Although the modalities were generally discussed under the heading of 'On things possible', the Hellenistic modal systems were each built on a set of four modalities: possibility, impossibility, necessity and non-necessity.

Both movies, in fact, are about the impossibility — and the necessity — of male friendship.

In Albany, I met with Paul Francis, the budget director, who was attempting to reconcile the seeming impossibility and absolute necessity of getting a budget done.

God does grant, amid the universal determinism, grace, an emanation from a realm beyond the range of mechanical necessity: "Impossibility is the door of the supernatural.

■ Her difficult relationships with friends reveal truths about the necessity/ impossibility of female intimacy.

Modal logic, formal systems incorporating modalities such as necessity, possibility, impossibility, contingency, strict implication, and certain other closely related concepts.

The necessity and impossibility of a true partnership with the Karzai regime is the central contradiction in our Afghanistan policy.

"But it is also, more deeply, a movie about its own nonexistence — a narrative that confronts both the impossibility and the desperate necessity of storytelling, and that short-circuits our expectations of coherence, plausibility and fidelity to lived reality even as it satisfies them.

The supervenience relation is explained by the necessity or impossibility of the supervening properties.