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  • Yagisawa's extended modal realism proposes a realist account of impossible worlds and impossibilia: impossible worlds, just like Lewis 'possible worlds, are concrete mereological sums of individuals, causally and spatiotemporally isolated from each other

    Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009

  • If a way the world might not be is a way some concrete impossible world is, impossibilities are out there: there exist impossibilia that instantiate them.

    Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009

  • On the contrary, thinking about impossibilia makes the suspension of the law of noncontradiction indispensable.

    Salvation Santa 2009

  • When stating that the administration of food and water is morally obligatory in principle, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith does not exclude the possibility that, in very remote places or in situations of extreme poverty, the artificial provision of food and water may be physically impossible, and then ad impossibilia nemo tenetur.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Mike L 2007

  • When stating that the administration of food and water is morally obligatory in principle, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith does not exclude the possibility that, in very remote places or in situations of extreme poverty, the artificial provision of food and water may be physically impossible, and then ad impossibilia nemo tenetur.

    Death by qualification Mike L 2007

  • Ego sanè nefas esse duco, his vel similibus naturæ miraculis ab absurda asserenda abuti, vel hæc tanquam impossibilia cum quadam impietate mirari.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Ego san� nefas esse duco, his vel similibus natur� miraculis ab absurda asserenda abuti, vel h鎐 tanquam impossibilia cum quadam impietate mirari.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • * Mandando impossibilia, non prevaricatores homines fecit, sed humiles; ut omne os obstruatur; et subditus fiat omnis mundus Deo.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Mandando impossibilia non praevaricatores homines fecit, sed humiles; ut omne os obstruatur; et subditus fiat omnis mundus Deo; quia ex operibus legis non justificatibur omnis caro coram illo.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Mandando impossibilia non praevaricatores homines fecit, sed humiles; ut omne os obstruatur; et subditus fiat omnis mundus Deo; quia ex operibus legis non justificatibur omnis caro coram illo.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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