The most toe-curling character is an ace bullshitter of a reporter, or possibly a mere blogger, who claims to have met Osama Bin Laden: "Back in Tora Bora.
Or possibly the mere awareness or perception of a patient being higher educated and more empowered may cause physicians to conduct the decision-making process more thoroughly.
In so speaking, he is not just saying in a colorful way that perhaps the final cause does not exist, but rather that it is perhaps a mere fictum, that possibly all of our appeals to final causation are merely convenient fictions, able in principle to be replaced by appeals to other kinds of cause, those with real being, like efficient causes.
It is possibly more than mere coincidence that England does not view these qualifications seriously, and also fails to produce a coach or manager deemed worthy of stewardship of a top-four club.
The love of God philosophers have in mind, James contends, is the love of desire; it cannot, by the philosophers' own admission, be the love of friendship, for according to Aristotle, at least in the Magna Moralia, friendship involves a form of community or sharing between the friends that cannot possibly obtain between mere mortals and the gods.
Had Leonard Cohen not been so Kurt Weill about himself and his characters, he might have been seated at the Rod McKuen kiddie table, possibly remaining a mere cult figure the likes of the similarly-brooding Scott Walker.
The Tonbridge Conservatives who voted Labour were possibly engaging in a mere reflex action of disapproval of the general situation.
A run of 25 would require a prize of a mere $33,554,432, possibly within the reach of a larger casino.
Mr. Johnson may label these democracies -- among them Japan, South Korea and now possibly even Indonesia -- as mere "satellites" of the American empire, but that characterization probably says more about Mr. Johnson than it does about the realities of world politics.
In particular, how could any mere material thing possibly display the phenomenon of intentionality, rationality, or consciousness?
