Sentence examples for relevant possibility from inspiring English sources

Nor will the modal structuralist support the relevant possibility on the basis of the existence of a consistency proof for the Peano axioms.

This is a far cry from van Inwagen's own conclusion that we have "no reason" (van Inwagen 1996/1991, 163) to accept the relevant possibility claims.

When an aspectual adverb reng or hai appears before, and thus modifies, keneng intended as a non-root modal for the past, it requires that the relevant possibility had continued up to a past reference time.

The most biologically relevant possibility is that there are probably many variable regions that contain pseudo-guides that once performed a role in editing but have subsequently lost that function.

5. Presumably, the relevant possibilities could not include all metaphysically possible states of affairs: otherwise, it is hard to see how (1) and (4) could share the same content, at least without help from a sophisticated widescopism (Sosa shows how this could help even though there are no modal operators: 2001, pp. 34-5, note 7), which is supposed to be a distinct suggestion.

Saucedo himself accepts the relevant possibilities, but others may prefer to reject any recombination principle strong enough to lead to them.

Finally, when the additive hai adjoins to MPEpi, as in 6b, it indicates that the possibility denoted by MPEpi exists (i.e., it is possible that people in southern Taiwan will experience a blackout), in addition to other relevant possibilities provided by the context.

However, if we take the structuralist approach then we will take the relevant possibilities to be "small" states of affairs — small chunks of the world, rather than an entire world — and then the possibility of more fine-grained distinctions between theories opens up.

A mentor outside the lab can help you deal with clashes with your adviser or lab mates, determine what career direction you should take, and consider all the relevant possibilities, including following in your principal investigator's footsteps and leaving science entirely (if you are so inclined).

As the complex metabolic system is projected and reduced into a network, the relevant possibilities also reduce to the corresponding relevant possibilities of the network.

"If A, C" is true at a context iff all relevant A-possibilities are C-possibilities, false otherwise.