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An SOA is said to be possible (necessary, impossible) insofar as it is possible (necessary, impossible) that it obtain.
Arguably, however experimental evidence can help—at a minimum to establish what is possible, necessary, and impossible.[43] If it can do that, it can at least constrain normative views, assuming the ought-implies-can principle to be true.
Whereas facts about what is actual are facts about how things are, facts about modality (i.e., what is possible, necessary, or impossible) are facts about how things could, must, or could not have been.
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Forbes (1989, 130 131) argued that states of affairs are needed as the fundamental bearers of modal properties like being possible, necessary etc. Thoughts cannot fulfill that role.
"We must say that another world is possible and necessary".
We must create a political system in which it is possible – and necessary – to be honest.
The only question is why one would believe such absolute or pure freedom is possible or necessary.
Nor do we believe that a rules change, like the one Mr. Hanauer suggests, is possible or necessary.
But the particular hell of Vladimir Putin's retro-totalitarianism is different: it is a regime in which choice is possible and necessary, but only between soul-deadening options.
The monitoring of inter-harmonics using PMUs is possible and necessary.
In order to solve this issue, a reformulation of the problem at a lower frequency [8] is possible and necessary.
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