Sentence examples for possibility claim from inspiring English sources

Consider a possibility claim.

How can the possibility claim in (1) be justified?

Moreover, intuition is also alleged to be a way of coming to know metaphysical possibility and every reconstruction of the Gettier argument also appeals to a possibility claim.

An additional concern is that (1*) is ill-suited to serve as the content of a rational intuition because its content is a mere possibility claim and rationalists often hold that rational intuition involves in some way an appearance of necessity.

Possibility claims have corresponding meta-claims asserting that the denial of the indicative is not nomological.

Rather, abilities have been understood in terms of categorical possibility claims.

Note that Spinoza appears to analyze some possibility claims in terms of actual events that occur in the immutable series that God wills.

This is a far cry from van Inwagen's own conclusion that we have "no reason" (van Inwagen 1996/1991, 163) to accept the relevant possibility claims.

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

This fictionalist about modality might reject the literal truth of all claims about necessity, for example (and, in virtue of the interdefinition, accept the literal truth of all possibility claims).

(Saucedo attempts to establish the existence of such a model more rigorously on the basis of some very weak possibility claims, but the argument is complex and resists compression).