Sentence examples for impossible proposition from inspiring English sources

Since impossibility is taken to be logical impossibility, i.e. ultimately a contradiction, Lewis argues that from an impossible proposition like (p∧¬p), both p and ¬p follow.

It is an impossible proposition".

That's a difficult but not impossible proposition.

MANY critics contend that Amazon has fundamentally picked an impossible proposition.

That was an impossible proposition for Fatah, given its official acceptance of a two-state solution with Israel.

For Tyler, being black is hard enough; being black and gay seems a cruel and impossible proposition.

Similarly, false propositions can be divided into those like "2 + 2 = 5 that are false by logical necessity (impossible propositions), and those like "France is a monarchy"—that are not (contingently false propositions).

In particular, the set \ \Omega\), on which the preference ordering \ \preceq\) is defined, has to be an atomless Boolean algebra of propositions, from which the impossible propositions, denoted \ \bot\), have been removed.

As sources for this idea Prior cites John Wallis (a seventeenth century logician) and the account of logically necessary and logically impossible propositions given by Wittgenstein in the Tractatus (p.737).

What had seemed an impossible financial proposition in the early 90's was coming into reach by the end of the decade with the growth in the value of the endowment.

I am willing to wager an impossible to prove proposition: that this no-name shlub from South Carolina would never have interrupted a white politician.