logical possibility
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflogicalandpossibility
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logical
adjective
uk/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
using ...
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possibility
noun
uk/ˌpɒs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌpɑː.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
a chance that something may happen or ...
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(Definition oflogicalandpossibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One has to admit this picture as alogicalpossibilityin the absence of quantitative theory.
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This paper argues for a more moderate version of physicalism that respects important physicalist intuitions about causal closure while allowing for miracles'logicalpossibility.
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Imaginability may be a guide tologicalpossibility, but it is a guide that must be used cautiously.
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Indeed, thelogicalpossibilityof a workable account of this sort is questioned by many nativists.
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It merely maintains that this is alogicalpossibility.
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This is indeed the onlylogicalpossibilityavailable if the identity hypothesis is rejected.
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If there is nothing beyond merelogicalpossibility, no credible evidence, in support of what appears to be a cooked-up theology, then one can just set its probability to zero.
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If anything, a strength of escapism is that universal reconciliation without divine coercion is not merely alogicalpossibilitybut may be a likely state of affairs in the eschaton.
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Doing better clearly is alogicalpossibility.
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Any claim as to its ' real possibility ', in contrast to its merelogicalpossibility, appeals to the formal conditions of possible experience.
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Thus, although a world interfered with only by an inveterate bodger is alogicalpossibility, part of our conceptual background is that our world is not like this.
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But most commonly when he speaks of something as possible, he means so-called real possibility notlogicalpossibility, where, 'really possible ' means ' can be known to be true or false'.
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Such disclosure is in a sense absolute: the disclosure of an ideological element opens up alogicalpossibility previously unavailable, and a return to the preceding situation is therefore impossible.
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That is a perfectlylogicalpossibilityto envisage.
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It is alogicalpossibility, but that is all it is.
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There is no third, fourth or fifthlogicalpossibility.
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I am quite prepared to accept that as alogicalpossibility.
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It would prevent disclosure in the event of the existence of alogicalpossibilityof damage, even though all concerned agreed that such damage was extremely unlikely.
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