Sentence examples for secondary possibility from inspiring English sources

A Communist revolution in France is a secondary possibility, with unknowable consequences.

And a posteriori physicalists will typically deny that it follows, on the ground that only the secondary possibility of zombie worlds would entail the falsity of physicalism.

Primary (as opposed to secondary) possibility concerns the question of whether there is some world W that makes P true when W is considered as actual.

With the distinction between primary and secondary intensions in place, Chalmers argues that while primary conceivability does not entail secondary possibility because of a posteriori necessities, primary conceivability under the right circumstances positive ideal rational reflection entails primary possibility.

This paper proposes a bi-objective hub-and-spoke (H&S) network design problem with type-2 (T2) fuzzy transportation cost and travel time described by parametric secondary possibility distributions, which are obtained using three types of mean value (MV) reduction methods.

At this point Chalmers in effect presents his opponents with a dilemma, which is (crudely summarizing his conclusions) that either the primary conceivability of zombies does after all entail their secondary possibility, in which case the conceivability argument works and materialism is false; or else what he calls 'Russellian monism', briefly explained at Section 5.3 below, is true.

Moreover, early detection of primary or secondary liver malignancies increases the possibility of curative surgical resection or successful percutaneous ablation.

The DLVO analysis further reveals the possible presence of secondary energy minima and the possibility of deaggregation of magnetite agglomerates.

While it therefore remains entirely possible that there will not be any observed secondary epidemic, the possibility of a secondary peak cannot be discounted despite the current low level of incidence.

The distinction between primary and secondary conceivability and possibility is used to overcome the problem posed by the existence of a posteriori necessities in a way that allows for an entailment link between conceivability and possibility to be forged.

However, to account for possible overlap in the sex partners of people treated [ 67] and the possibility that secondary transmission(s) from the infected person had already occurred prior to treatment, we reduced the expected population-level impact by 50%, thereby assuming that each case of STI treated prevents 0.5 cases (rather than one case) of that STI in the population.