Sentence examples for permanent possibilities from inspiring English sources

Just as Mill in the 19th century considered ordinary physical objects as "permanent possibilities of sensation," so Mach and Avenarius construed the concepts pertaining to what humans commonsensically regard as the objects of the real world as "complexes of sensations".

In contrast to phenomenalism, a position in the theory of knowledge (epistemology) with which it is often confused, phenomenology which is not primarily an epistemological theory accepts neither the rigid division between appearance and reality nor the narrower view that phenomena are all that there is (sensations or permanent possibilities of sensations).

Mill argues in the Examination that material objects as the permanent possibilities of sensation exist independently of being sensed.

It is important to note that, while we do not experience these permanent possibilities, they are not mere fictions.

Matter is resolved by Mill into a lawfully related bundle of sensations including many permanent possibilities of sensation.

Can one's own mind similarly be resolved into a bundle of feelings with a background of permanent possibilities?

Whereas 1) is usually regarded as a positive metaphysical claim, it means rather that li in this sense refers to "permanent possibilities of qi formation".

Mill refers to these possibilities which are conditional certainties as "permanent possibilities", thus distinguishing them from mere vague possibilities which experience gives us no warrant for reckoning upon.