Sentence examples for of their possibility from inspiring English sources

Wolff gives the following definition of philosophy in his German Logic: "[p]hilosophy is the science of all possible things, together with the manner and reason of their possibility".[36] Having briefly examined what the notion of science entails for Wolff above, consider now the other central notion of his definition (viz. the notion of "possible things").

"I've ridden the Black over 100 miles per hour and for a couple hundred miles, and I love that riding them is part of their possibility, but it's beside the point for me," he said.

An initial argument appeals to the claim that extended simples are conceivable and takes that to be some prima facie evidence in favor of their possibility.

So although Descartes did everything short of spelling out the idea of zombies, the question of their possibility did not arise for him.

Language and law, personified by the name of the father, are irreducible to social practices and processes and are in fact the condition of their possibility.

Electrical nanogap devices are emerging because of their possibility to be the building blocks for connecting [1], analyzing [2], and using molecules, and so for implementing nano-metric electronic devices [3].

My work has always been to help players get results in terms of their possibilities and capacities.

Everyone's aspirations were running about a notch ahead of their possibilities; maybe they would push their own daughters a notch or two further.

She's a talented athlete, a mature, lyrical skater, but these qualities are not being showcased to the utmost of their possibilities".

Moving among entrepreneurs, radicals and religious seekers, he notes that the greatest upheaval is "in the mind, in how people conceived of their possibilities".

As if the dice had conspired with Bruno to educate Stolarsky in the caprice of their possibilities, Stolarsky reëntered from the bar on his first try, and also hit Bruno's sole uncovered checker.