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To express logical impossibility: si ma tante en avait, on l'appellerait mon oncle ("if my aunt had any she would be called my uncle"). What she would have is left to the imagination, and it is probably a parallel creation rather than a borrowing to or from Marathi (see below).
Impossibility of performance, in contract law an excuse for non-performance of a contract; Impossibility defense, a criminal defense for a crime that was legally impossible to commit; Proof of impossibility, in mathematics a proof that demonstrates that a particular problem cannot be solved
Impossibilism is a Marxist theory that stresses the limited value of political, economic, and social reforms under capitalism.As a doctrine, impossibilism views the pursuit of such reforms as counterproductive to the goal of achieving socialism as they stabilize, and therefore strengthen, support for capitalism.
Juvenal's phrase was a common expression in 16th century London as a statement of impossibility. [7] The London expression derives from the Old World presumption that all swans must be white because all historical records of swans reported that they had white feathers. [8] In that context, a black swan was impossible or at least nonexistent.
A bootstrap paradox, also known as an information loop, an information paradox, [6] an ontological paradox, [7] or a "predestination paradox" is a paradox of time travel that occurs when any event, such as an action, information, an object, or a person, ultimately causes itself, as a consequence of either retrocausality or time travel.
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There are different ways how a regress can be vicious. The most serious type of viciousness involves a contradiction in the form of metaphysical impossibility. [4] [1] [7] Other types occur when the infinite regress is responsible for the theory in question being implausible or for its failure to solve the problem it was formulated to solve.
Jack Nicholson spent some quality time with his loved ones over the holiday season.. In an Instagram post shared by his daughter Lorraine Nicholson on Thursday, Jan. 2, the actor, 87, was captured ...