Sentence examples for ordinary possibility from inspiring English sources

Thus, in this first stage of the actualist treatment of modality, ordinary possibility claims are analyzed in terms of actually existing states of affairs.

"We were prepared for the ordinary possibilities, like a teenage girl who got pregnant and wasn't in a circumstance to keep us," she said.

Crouching Tiger adopts the convention of the wu xia martial arts stories: in formal combat, the rules of gravity are suspended, and with them the rules of narrative and ordinary human possibility - bringing into the action genre a delirious new sort of magic realism.

Instead, 'It is plausible that' may be regarded as a modal epistemic operator that aims to capture a notion, prima facie plausibility, that is somewhat stronger than ordinary epistemic possibility.

Steiner has written a truly exceptional study of human flaws and frailties, down to the detail of a man's unthinking choice of "that slippery wrapping paper that's extra thin – extra cheap" used for a supposed loved-one's Christmas present; and the ordinary tragedies of possibility that amount to nothing and people who continually disappoint.

"Entry is so regulated and there are watchers everywhere who'd observe the first sign of anything out of the ordinary... the possibility of that kind of an attack feels like a freak occurrence".

Cohen 1988 adopts a contextualist treatment of 'relevant alternatives' theory, according to which, in skeptical contexts, but not ordinary ones, skeptical possibilities are relevant.

Here's what he said about it: "I've always believed that what sets America apart from every other nation is that we, ordinary Americans, believe in possibilities — unlimited possibilities.

Specifically, the proposition above – God's seeing to it both that every animal who is not observed does not suffer and that natural laws are not massively irregular – which van Inwagen would reject as genuinely possible seems no farther from ordinary life than the possibilities van Inwagen himself proposes as genuine (see van Inwagen 2006, 114).

Delilah offers the possibility of ordinary American female life redeemed by... by what?

Beyond enraging skeptics, such apocalyptic scenes seem to negate any possibility that ordinary citizens might be able to prevent disaster.