Sentence examples for purely possible from inspiring English sources

It requires that there be no essence without existence, which is to say, that there can be no purely possible beings either in the human mind as in Descartes, or in God's mind, as in Malebranche.

The notion that such truths are in some way prior to God's creation of the world, existing as purely possible essences separate from actual existence, involves a separation of essence from existence, and supposes that essence is something actually separable and conceivable without existence.

To devote his life as purely as possible to pure mathematics, Erdos forsook all other distractions, including family, home and money.

The "best performance" had truly outstripped the realms of the purely physiologically possible.

"I never really had a plan," he says, "except to express myself as purely as possible".

What Glazer wanted, he realised, was to make a film representing, as purely as possible, an alien view of our world.

Many of the worst independent films are marked by the sense that the filmmakers, who wrote their own scripts, became directors largely to protect their scripts and to transmit their content to the screen as purely as possible.

His often-stated belief was that the actor's duty was not to over-elaborate or over-complicate, not to draw unnecessary attention to himself or his art, but to express an author's intentions as purely as possible.

Although untenable and purely theoretic, this possible connection between potassium channels in the brain and the mechanism of consciousness (and therefore the possible mechanism of NDEs) deserves further investigation.

That sense has encouraged Tiffany to make the experience as purely theatrical as possible.

But on the whole this exhibition gives New York a sense of Mr. Hirst as an artist with big, life-affirming messages to get across, determined to do so without preaching, and in terms as close to purely visual as possible.