Unlike the examples from Pollock and Buridan, however, we cannot understand such possibility without possible truth in terms of expressing a possibly true proposition while not being possibly true itself.
Propositions do not express propositions, of course, and so we cannot understand their possibility without possible truth in this way (Plantinga 1981).
Legalization without possible citizenship is just another dead-end idea.
In some cases, healthy youngsters are study subjects, raising questions about whether they are being exposed to risks without possible benefit.
To try to clarify cause and effect, the researchers said they were preparing a new suite of tests in which isolated bee colonies would be intentionally infected with the virus, both with and without possible secondary causes like certain parasites.
A bailout of this size for our "too big to save" banks may not be enough to cover all shortfalls without possible nationalisation of some of our financial institutions.
A child of itinerant and impoverished Russian revolutionaries, Serge was born in Belgium in 1890 and spent his adolescence in Paris, doing various manual jobs and consorting with other angry and despairing youths in a "world without possible escape", as Serge characterises Europe on the eve of the first world war.
However, increased utilization of wood fiber from existing ecosystems to meet growing demand for food, fiber and bioenergy feedstock is not without possible environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Demographic information, such as median house value and changes in house numbers, and distribution of houses on different exposure, is used to estimate the time-dependent probable damage with or without possible climate change induced change in wind speed.
The second step in the actualist analysis of modality is to find a way to do without possible but nonactual individuals — also known as mere possibilia or contingently nonactual individuals.
To ensure that the results of the trial would be reported accurately without possible bias due to missing data, the study leadership decided that no outcome results would be reported until the vital status at the end of the study was known for at least 97% of the study participants.
