Sentence examples for strictly impossible from inspiring English sources

The first argument is that it is strictly impossible to control another's beliefs completely (20, 250 51).

Yet, many theorists, including many philosophers (e.g., Sartre 1940) thought that realizing that one is dreaming is incompatible with the dream state and that dream lucidity is strictly impossible.

The claim that emergence is strictly impossible has a metaphysical root in the ancient dictum "ex nihlio, nihil fit" to which Wundt, for example, explicitly appealed (see Wundt 1892/1894, p. 443).

Brentano's views on the unity of consciousness entail that inner observation, as explained above, is strictly impossible, i.e., that we cannot have a second act which is directed towards another mental act which it accompanies.

The claim is that a verbal report of proper perception is strictly impossible, for such a report requires conceptualization, which is not perceptual in character; the objects of conceptual awareness are spontaneous constructions of our mind and are essentially linguistic in character.

"The odds of an overdose from such a freak incident are infinitesimally small — if not strictly impossible".

Nothing happens in this little book that is strictly speaking impossible.

Socrates believed that akrasia was, strictly speaking, impossible, since we could not want what is bad for us; if we act against our own interests, it must be because we don't know what's right.

A planning dependant on accurate predictions is fragile, since such forecasting on complex system is, strictly speaking, impossible.

Lip rounding, a feature of vowels such as /u/, is thus, strictly speaking, impossible.

The nonsexual use of the word can be seen in countless contemporary examples, as when Vice President Dick Cheney used it in 2004 to recommend that Senator Patrick Leahy do something that is, strictly speaking, anatomically impossible.