Sentences with phrase «chance of this particular thing»

«The chance of this particular thing working is zero,» says Max Lagally, a materials scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Not exact matches

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

Hartshorne writes in Chance Love and Incompatibility:» «The first step toward a more intelligible view is to recognize with Scholz and a number of other logicians that absolute identity of the concrete or particular is given in an event or occasion, not in a thing enduring through time, like a person or a body.

(One last thing: Alabama is the No. 1 team in the country and now has a lower - than - 50 percent chance of winning two particular games.

And wins win you the PL Title Our defense including goalkeeper have been excellent and they have been giving us chances of winning but we end up losing or drawing many times because our goal scorers have been misfiring In my opinion, our strikers have been letting down the great work of Cech, bellerin, koscielny, Mert, Moneal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramey, and especially our Assist leader Ozil Mahrez and Vardy in particular have been dynamite this season for Leicester So far in terms of our Offense only Ozil, and Cazorla have been been of the same quality but they aren't goal scorers per se If Welbeck, Alexis, Walcott and Giroud can start scoring, then things can change Hopefully, they can start tomorrow COYG

In particular, a probability of 0 means there's literally no chance of that thing happening, a probability of 1 means that it's certain to happen, and a probability in between these extremes such as 0.5 means there's a 50 % chance of it happening.

Social networks are invested in so many things at the same time, thereby diminishing the chances of successfully achieving one particular aim (in this case, finding a sugar daddy / baby)

His paintings are usually about a particular moment — «The work of art — a stop of time», he wrote in a diary — a chance arrangement of things on the breakfast table, with a figure perhaps, or a landscape as he saw it in the light of an instant, and so they are usually painted from a single drawing, or from more than one made in quick succession on the same occasion.