Unless otherwise specified, \(S\) is the set of possible outcomes of the games, the set of all strategy profiles.[6] Each player is assumed to entertain a number of possibilities, called possible worlds or simply (epistemic) states.
Library staff members debated the possibilities: Call the police or have the children wait outside until their parents came.
A million or two years ago, Homo habilis (Latin for "handyman") used one piece of flint to sharpen another piece of flint, thus inventing a new realm of gift possibilities called tools.
Tallis unpicks the problems with all the various philosophers' arguments, in particular with reference to possibilities – "call no event future until it is past" is his aphoristic solution – while offering other, deeper approaches to time.
The horror vacui that possibility calls up dwarfs the slight existential unease created by severely limited shopping opportunities.
Another possibility, called the many worlds interpretation, would be even weirder: that all the possible states are real, and when the wave function collapses to one state, we're just experiencing one of many universes that exist simultaneously, in which every possible outcome happens.
Fortunately, there is another possibility, called "mandated choice," under which people must indicate their preference.
A few days ago, before a Mississippi audience, Mr. Clinton beamed at the possibility, calling the Democratic pair an "unstoppable force".
A possibility called tropical shrimp was sweetly tasty but two lonely and not overly large shrimp on a bed of shredded lettuce for $5.50 were no buy.
But J. Craig Venter, president of Celera, played down that possibility, calling the public effort "a very different project with a very different goal".
