It may be assumed that that the feather moves at t and that the feather remains motionless at t are a pair of states of affairs of the sort in question.
Sure, the background of the case unfolding in the department in northwest China was unchanged and, let's face it, unhelpful: Police Chief Qi Fang had, indeed, been found embroiled in a pair of simultaneous love affairs with two women, who worked for the police department and whom he had promoted through the ranks, while keeping them in a luxurious apartment, paid for by the public treasury.
However, one might object to the preceding reply on the grounds that if there is a pair of coexistent necessarily omniscient and necessarily morally perfect omnipotent agents, then there is a pair of incompatible contingent states of affairs each of which is morally optional for these agents, that is, neither morally prohibited nor morally required for them.
It might then be inferred that any states of affairs that a pair of coexistent omnipotent agents would endeavor to bring about at a given time are compatible.
Again adapted by Christopher Hampton, it involves a pair of couples and an affair between two of the quartet, which unravels with unexpected results.
A desire for a new pair of skates is likewise a desire for another state of affairs: that one own a new pair of skates.
However, after Parr discovered the pair in an embrace, she ended this state of affairs.
(The Japanese series, a low-budget affair — a pair of exaggerated sideburns is the only visual cue that the lead character is a monkey — became deliciously inexplicable when dubbed into English by British actors mimicking Chinese accents).
MIDWAY into "Possession," the movie based on A. S. Byatt's novel about the parallel love affairs of a pair of Victorian poets and two uptight modern scholars who are their counterparts, the Victorians have a tryst.
A pair of distinguished old gentlemen are discussing affairs of state over steaming cups of coffee and slices of cake.
