The phrase "permanent possibility" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to something that is always or indefinitely possible. It is typically used in a speculative or philosophical context. Example: "Some philosophers argue that the existence of multiple universes is a permanent possibility, as there is no way to definitively prove or disprove their existence."
Implosion of this sort is a permanent possibility, in a sense the proper response to Shanghai.
He writes of how in an era when everyone has the permanent possibility of communicating with just about anyone else, his own interactions with those actually present have become curiously stilted.
And the new white knight is a former king and maybe future prime minister, nay president.Exiled as a boy king in 1946, and a permanent possibility in Bulgarian politics ever since 1990, Simeon II or Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburggotski, to use the name in his passport entered the political fray in February.
Stalin is always going to give good value in a novel, and there are some priceless anecdotes about him here ("Who organised the standing up?" he asks furiously after a spontaneous ovation for the poet Anna Akhmatova), but he comes over more as a grinch than the permanent possibility of terror that he embodies when, say, a Bulgakov novel or a Brodsky poem gets him in its sights.
Indeed, many contemporary moral theories, other than utilitarianism, insist that such overruling remains a permanent possibility.
He thus sees himself as driven to "ascribe a reality to the Ego to my own Mind different from that real existence as a Permanent Possibility, which is the only reality I acknowledge in Matter" (ibid).
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).
It is important to note that, while we do not experience these permanent possibilities, they are not mere fictions.
Mill argues in the Examination that material objects as the permanent possibilities of sensation exist independently of being sensed.
Can one's own mind similarly be resolved into a bundle of feelings with a background of permanent possibilities?
