Sentence examples for impossible principles from inspiring English sources

There are, as well, likely infinite applicably impossible principles one could use: age the author died at or will die at; number of words the author spoke aloud during the time it took the book to be written; the amount of truth in the book; the number of times the letter X appears, or the word surface; the number of times a copy of the book has been carried into a McDonald's… on and on.

He argues that, because consciousness is an intrinsically biological phenomenon, it is impossible in principle to build a computer (or any other nonbiological machine) that is conscious.

This explanation is immensely ingenious and, although calling for some astonishingly fine sensory discriminations on the part of the pigeon, not impossible in principle.

In theory, this should have been impossible: one principle of security at Swiss banks is that client information is distributed in "cellular" fashion, so that no individual has access to too much data.

They refused, citing "grave misgivings" and noting that at any rate the level of data collection expected was "impossible in principle".

And while there may be some practical obstacles to creating such a system there seem no reasons to suppose that it is impossible in principle.

If this distribution is not an accidental fact about our universe, but rather obtains as a matter of law, superluminal signaling will be impossible in principle.

It is noteworthy that the appearance of collision itself does not compromise the hashed representation as collision-free hashing is impossible in principle.

For this reason, it is impossible in principle that unconditional scientific prophecies could be made in relation to human history the idea that the successful unconditional prediction of eclipses provides us with reasonable grounds for the hope of successful unconditional prediction regarding the evolution of human history turns out to be based upon a gross misconception, and is quite false.

A physical theory counts as holistic by this criterion if and only if it is impossible in principle to infer the global properties, as assigned in the theory, by local resources available to an agent, where these include (at least) all local operations and classical communication.

There is no positive evidence to suggest that such activations are impossible in principle.