The opposition corrects what Thompson described as, "the dualistic separation of consciousness and life [that] makes it impossible to understand coconsciousness in its basic form …" But, furthermore, by implication, dualistic separations perpetuate the impossibility of considering plants as intelligent at all.
The tough choice for the left is to understand the impossibility and undesirability of equality.
He argues: "The tough choice for the left is to understand the impossibility and undesirability of equality".
To understand the impossibility of any change in the daily bloodbath, witness America's debacle in Afghanistan, with its high price in human life — not to mention the billions of dollars thrown away on a lost cause.
The Moments are more intense if you've played enough tennis to understand the impossibility of what you just saw him do".
It is important to understand why and how Arrow's impossibility result comes about.
The topological approach to distributed computing [21] has been useful to understand the nature of fault-tolerant distributed computing, to prove impossibility results and to understand why in some case there exists a distributed algorithm to solve a problem.
However, it is not immediately as clear how to understand many intuitive necessities/impossibilities involving complex structural universals, for example, the impossibilities noted in the previous section, viz., that something simultaneously have a mass of both 1kg and 2kg or simultaneously be both a baboon and a hoolock.
In other words, Christian privilege allowed many Christians to understand heterosexual marriage as normative, natural, and inevitable and therefore same sex marriage was an impossibility because it would have been unnatural, invisible, and outside the conceivable norm.
Listening to Alexievich, I was reminded of nobody so much as Philip Roth, who wrote in 1960 of the apparent impossibility of a fiction writer competing with the news: "The American writer in the middle of the twentieth century has his hands full in trying to understand, describe, and then make credible much of American reality.
