If it were analytic, then it would be conceptually impossible to be instrumentally incoherent since whenever one doesn't will the means, then one doesn't will the end.
And if it's conceptually impossible to be instrumentally incoherent, we'd be unable to make sense of why Kant formulates his account of instrumental incoherence in terms of imperatives, which, on Kant's view, are commands addressed to a will that is capable of both following and not following the commands (Kant 4 414; Hill 1973, 430; Korsgaard 1997, 236).
The result is that the FBI operates under a faux definition of "mortgage fraud" in which it is conceptually impossible for the banks and their controlling officers to be criminals.
The combination of partless entities, however, is conceptually impossible.
Only the thesis that the instantiation of ethical properties is conceptually impossible would suffice.
If it turns out that self-creation is conceptually impossible as many argue (e.g., Galen Strawson 1986), then perhaps there is a sense in which it is right to say that being in control of one's constitution makes no sense.
Moreover, this move would come at the price of building a sort of atomistic materialism into the very notion of reduction; if we were to define reduction in mereological terms, it would be conceptually impossible that parts reduce to the whole they form.
Once motion was defined in Cartesian terms as a mode that, like shape, is inseparable from the substance of which it is a mode, it was conceptually impossible for the motion of one body to be shared with another or to pass from one to another.
In the context of a non-revealed religion, then, to make divine or supernatural commands the source of moral values and principles would be conceptually impossible.
Non-existing substances do not exist for the same reason that squared circles do not exist in Euclidean space: they are conceptually impossible (Ip11d).
