Parents enraged by the scepticism of schools and social workers will be delighted by the possibility of scientific proof that their child's problems are not a passing phase, or the result of overindulgent parenting.
If he thinks that some proposition can be inferred from (justified by) other propositions and be self-evident, he clearly thinks that its being self-evident does not rule out the possibility of a proof.
A gradation of the PRB, depending on whether or not a gain in OS was proven, is logically untenable, since the possibility of the proof itself as described depends in many cases on the tumor entity, the tumor stage and the individual situation of the patient and not just on the pharmaceutical alone.
"Adaptation," by Eric Klinenberg (January 7 , 2013: On the possibility of "climate-proofing" New York City.
It's the possibility of sharing proofs about the data without sharing the data itself".
And this is why Bill and I are excited about the possibilities of Living Proof.
An early version of such an argument can be found in Augustine and the Neo-Platonic tradition, but the canonical presentations of this sort of "possibility proof" are in Leibniz's Monadology (1714) and, much more elaborately, in Kant's book-length treatise called The Only Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God (1763).
Although there remains the theoretical possibility of a finitary proof of consistency that cannot be reflected in the foregoing systems of set theory, no hopeful, positive results have been obtained.
I also noted that we were far from the heady days of 1998, when Republicans were envisioning the possibility of a filibuster-proof 60-vote margin.
