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Describing the impossible
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RE: Describing the impossible
Well, some things are impossible, at least in a definitional sense.  To take rob's first example, we define 'bachelor' as 'an unmarried adult male'.  Thus, a 'a married bachelor' is definitionally impossible.  Things of this sort are more than a labelling issue, they are a cognitive function issue.  The only way to make married bachelors possible is to redefine 'married', 'bachelor' and 'impossible'. Until and unless we are willing to do so, a married bachelor is, in every sense that matters, an impossibility.  Others:

-Canine cats

-Arctic tropics

-Wet desert

-Uneaten meal

-Non-alcoholic ethanol

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Describing the impossible - by robvalue - October 10, 2018 at 8:48 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by vulcanlogician - October 10, 2018 at 10:17 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by brewer - October 10, 2018 at 10:19 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by DodosAreDead - October 10, 2018 at 10:28 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by brewer - October 10, 2018 at 10:39 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by DodosAreDead - October 10, 2018 at 10:41 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by Whateverist - October 10, 2018 at 10:22 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by Minimalist - October 10, 2018 at 11:39 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by bennyboy - October 10, 2018 at 6:53 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by ignoramus - October 10, 2018 at 7:40 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by bennyboy - October 11, 2018 at 1:23 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 10, 2018 at 11:58 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by ignoramus - October 10, 2018 at 5:32 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 10, 2018 at 7:04 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by Angrboda - October 10, 2018 at 2:28 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by Whateverist - October 10, 2018 at 5:10 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by polymath257 - October 10, 2018 at 8:20 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by Whateverist - October 11, 2018 at 1:10 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by polymath257 - October 10, 2018 at 2:30 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by Dr H - October 10, 2018 at 4:38 pm
RE: Describing the impossible - by robvalue - October 11, 2018 at 1:40 am
RE: Describing the impossible - by Dr H - October 11, 2018 at 4:33 pm

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