Sentence examples for probable impossibility from inspiring English sources
But he did allow that, if forced to choose, writers "should prefer a probable impossibility to an unconvincing possibility".
Some exceptions are also made for "impossible attempts", which are divided into legal impossibility, impossibility through ineptitude and physical impossibility.
But possibility and impossibility are binary, and when we adjudge the yeti more probable than the leprechaun we aren't reflecting facts about the world we live in; we aren't reflecting the world we live in at all.
This diagram presents another interesting property: the groups with the highest impossibility scores relative to other groups are also the most probable associations of species.
Because the iron in these deposits was deposited from seawater (an impossibility today, since the atmosphere is too oxidizing to allow seawater to transport iron), it is probable that a specific composition of the atmosphere and ocean peculiar to that period defined the BIF metallogenic epoch.
This kind of probable judgment comes in degrees, ranging from near demonstrations and certainty to unlikeliness and improbability to near the vicinity of impossibility.
An impossibility, of course.
It was an impossibility".
