It is by no means impossible that we're at the beginning of an unfavorable period".
But this idea of "well, if we understood more about physics or other life forms, we would see how it's not impossible that we're here... .. is the same concept as this god of the gaps.
There had recently been a spate of dog-poisonings in her part of Italy, and so it was not impossible that we were hearing a death howl.
However, at the same time Peters also admitted that the study about committed warming reinforced a troubling conclusion, since "it's in a sense impossible that we're not going to emit any more". The upshot is that "We're starting from 1.5 and going up from there in the future emissions that we have," he said.
At the beginning, everybody was saying it was impossible, that we were some kind of neo-utopians.
But it is precisely impossible worlds that we are talking about here; how negation works at any possible world need not be affected by the fact that, at some impossible world or other, some sentence can hold together with its negation: this is one of the things that makes them impossible, after all.
Though it will take another quarter of shrinking for a recession to be official, Howard Archer, chief U.K. economist at IHS Global Insight, said that it was "impossible to dispute that we are there".
"One year into this campaign it seems impossible to assert that we are winning and that ISIL is losing," Arizona Senator and Committee Chairman John McCain said.
This defense is essentially obfuscation and goes like this: There are so many potential reasons for cancer and other illnesses that it will be impossible to produce proof that we are at fault.
Others maintain that such analysis is impossible or indeterminate, and that we are therefore driven to normative arguments about what legal authority should be (see Soper 2002; Finnis 1979, 12 15).
