Yes, I hedged — it was a statement of possibilities, not a straight prediction.
On the correct account of such statements of epistemic possibility, 'It is possible [for A] that p' is true if and only if what A knows does not, in a manner that is obvious to A, entail not-p.
Such a statement introduces the notion of possibility and thus raises irrelevant difficulties" (BReal, 87).
"I am committed to looking at this with a fresh perspective and new sense of possibility," the statement said.
He thought that only on the basis of a close isomorphism between language and the world could the signifying power of terms and statements, the possibility of definitions, and finally the validity and universality of our knowledge be explained and ensured.
We felt his programming was a perfect statement of the hall's possibilities".
Almost lost in the tumult of the governor's statement and the possibility of his resignation were the original allegations against the defendants said to have operated the ring.
Since the Sly episode is staged, well, conventionally, given the company's trademark anachronistic excess, the last picture of a real show of shows emerges as a lovely statement about the possibility of values coexisting, say, classical and funk, the old with all things contemporary.
However, an RCT in a large population of fragile elderly individuals, many with dementia and no possibility to give statement of consent would be very difficult to carry out.
(Scanlan's inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial prompted the withdrawal of the Yams Collective, a group of black artists who wrote in a statement that "the possibility of this figure somehow producing increased 'representation' for black artists both furthers the reduction of black personhood and insults the very notion of representation as a political or collective engagement").
