Sentences with phrase «logical possibility»

But there is probably no objective content - criterion for logical possibilities.

More serious problems, however, concern logical possibility.

A more precise way of putting it is that with regard to every future logical possibility the causal probability of occurrence is either 1 or 0.

Now my argument is that Hartshorne's neoclassical way of conceiving Cod furnishes the postulate of logical possibility for the ontological argument.

From large - scale sculpture to live - radio broadcasts and interactive sound installations, Conley's work presents unlikely circumstances as logical possibilities for locating human experience within a continuum bounded by technology and nature.

Part of the thrill in watching Niccol's movies is in seeing him thoroughly curate dreams of our future that play off like logical possibilities.

The philosophers who have espoused a dualism of real and logical possibilities seem not to have been troubled by the prospect of what would, ever and always, be unexperienceable.

We shall take our definition of logical possibility from Hartshorne himself: «A described state of affairs is «logically possible» if the description «makes sense» and involves no contradictions» (6: 593) What Hartshorne means by «makes sense» is never clearly spelled out in his arguments.

(6:601) However, we need not here concern ourselves with this distinction because logical possibility is all we need to establish.

Ideally the feature will come before then, but if iOS 11.3 comes and goes without including it, iOS 12 feels like the next logical possibility.

My view is that the other arguments for God — those other than the ontological argument — do not directly provide the postulate of logical possibility.

As to Hartshorne's second criterion for logical possibility, there is clearly nothing contradictory in the notion of all contingent beings ceasing to be.

If we're indeed a simulation, then that would be a logical possibility, that what we're measuring aren't really the laws of nature, they're some sort of attempt at some sort of artificial law that the simulators have come up with.

There are a number of logical possibilities.

It combines your root word with prepositions to come up with a huge array of logical possibilities.

It means that noncontradiction is not the only criterion of logical possibility.

Broadly speaking, logical possibility is restricted only by the law of noncontradiction.

It is at least a logical possibility that a belief or action may be both authentically or faithfully Christian and false.

The persuasive way to read Pascal's original is as a performance argument and a prayer, but, taken as a flat set of logical possibilities, it has an answer in the extremely unlikely possibility that God rewards disbelief or that God punishes belief.

Inherent in the concept of fidelity is the logical possibility of infidelity.

Anyway the logical possibilities are covered by the mathematics of conic sections and deviations there from, so sooner or later that is what one should come to.

The construction of a scheme of logical possibilities, such as those found in Hartshorne's writings, can perhaps facilitate the comparison and interaction of different positions.

Meanwhile, when we speak of «possibility» in connection with the question of whether it is possible for there to be nothing at all, we mean «logical possibility.»

What is less obvious perhaps is that another of Hartshorne's principles, the ultimate coincidence of real and logical possibility, depends on that same postulate.

A possibility which was eternally only a logical possibility, though it would not be a purely negative fact, would nonetheless be an eternally negative fact, a privation never to be redeemed through actualization.

What at stake is not merely the logical possibility of a particular, limited situation, such as higher values without predation, or animals who need no food.

Logical possibility as the absence of incompatibility of one concept with another is significant only because the concepts, one by one, express aspects of the creative process.

In his discussion of «Achilles and the Tortoise,» Whitehead recognizes the logical possibility of an infinite series of acts of becoming within a single second (PR 107).

This is not to deny that the coin — an actuality — has only two faces; it is only to point out that the result of a coin flip depends on the angle which these faces make with a surface, and there is a logical possibility of any angle, not just approximately 0 degrees, for the result.

The phrase «logical possibility» has long seemed to me somewhat ambiguous.

Should not an actual event be considered a logical possibility?

They are logical possibilities and causal possibilities.

The positivist, according to this account, can avoid this conclusion only if he can consistently make good the claim that the term «God» is meaningless, which is a way of saying that God's purported existence is not a logical possibility in any sense.

In short, the ontological argument is by no means superfluous, since it does not rest on the other arguments to guarantee the postulate of logical possibility, and gains support from them only insofar as that postulate is protected by those arguments against options they show to be specious.

The ontological argument properly focuses attention on the postulate of logical possibility and hence on the doctrine of God itself.

Hence, the postulate of logical possibility, which, as I have argued, rests on the cogency of the idea of God, must by virtue of that very idea reveal the problem of evil to involve a misunderstanding.

One of the problems the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is likely to grapple with in the face of the ongoing economic downturn which is largely due to declining oil prices in the international market is the logical possibility of an industrial unrest both in the public and private sectors.

«For me the reality of many universes is a logical possibility,» Linde says.

«It sounds creepy, but people realized that's a logical possibility that hasn't been closed yet,» says MIT's David Kaiser, the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and senior lecturer in the Department of Physics.

«If we're indeed a simulation, then that would be a logical possibility, that what we're measuring aren't really the laws of nature, they're some sort of attempt at some sort of artificial law that the simulators have come up with.