It is as though to allow the rhythm its full completion would be untrue to the shape of the experience that gave rise to the poem, untrue to the terms of the struggle between the pure possibility that language itself can offer and a knowledge of the sad fixtures which the grim business of loss can provide.
Calvin and Hobbes In the world of The Map to Everywhere, magic is pure possibility and so we can think of no better duo to end our list than one whose very existence is rooted in the imagination (or Bill Watterson, who created them).
When you're young, few things are quite as intoxicating as meeting someone with confidence: someone who lives freely, untroubled by doubt or self-consciousness, all fire and will, allergic to talk of status or career, who represents pure possibility at a time before any of these concepts — doubt, career, freedom — have taken on the full force of their meaning.
More specifically, the idea of a supremely real being (the ens realissimum) is one to which we are inevitably led during our attempts to account for the pure possibility of things in general.
Desgabets defends the Cartesian doctrines of sensible qualities, matter, mind-body dualism, mind-body union and interaction in man while criticizing Descartes's argument for the cogito as the first principle of knowledge, the claim that there is such a process as pure intellection, that there are innate ideas, and that ideas have objective reality (pure possibility).
The deity receives the world of actual occasions into its experience; then, comparing what has actually occurred with the realm of pure possibility, God informs the world with new ideals (new aims), customized for each actual entity, for what realistically could be achieved.
Scotus calls the propositional formulations of pure possibilities 'logical possibilities'.
Truthful fictions can help scientists to discover pure possibilities that predict future actual discoveries and achievements.
Scotus calls the propositional formulations of pure possibilities logical possibilities (possibile logicum).
I include (2) because the notion of conceivability has one foot in the psychological camp, like imaginability, and one in the camp of pure logical possibility and therefore helps in the transition from one to the other.
Anthony Braun, the executive producer of the Rose Center, who worked on the planetarium's two current space shows, "Passport to the Universe" and "The Search for Life: Are We Alone?" -- said he had long been mulling the planetarium technology's pure entertainment possibilities.
