Sentence examples for impossible state from inspiring English sources

impossibility as such, or absolute impossibility, which amounts to nothing, or the impossible state of affairs that is referred to when notions of things that do have a reality separately but are incompatible are combined in statements.

The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future.

The Impossible State, by Victor Cha (Ecco).

Mr. Dodik has called Bosnia an "impossible state" and has said he wants his republic to secede.

Clearly some sort of advanced technology was required to achieve this otherwise impossible state, but the final product has a nice, counterintuitive simplicity, like a three-dimensional koan.

"Having to sell to meet redemptions is an impossible state to be in," the fund's new manager, Gareth Watts, told The New York Times then.

Although perhaps there are impossible states of affairs or situations, we take it that there are no impossible facts.

One sense of 'omnipotence' is, literally, that of having the power to bring about any state of affairs whatsoever, including necessary and impossible states of affairs.

But it also leads one to consider contradictions — which describe impossible states, or whose probability is 0 — as the sort of messages that contain the highest amount of semantic information.

Most theists agree with Aquinas that God cannot bring about logically impossible states of affairs, like creating a circle with unequal radii (Summa Contra Gentiles II, ch. 25, para. 14).

Mirage Resorts deemed building the proposed "off-island connector" as "virtually impossible", stating how permits would be difficult to obtain with a land-based alternative available, and the tunnel was determined to be the best option for construction of the Connector.