* Niall Lucy points to the impossibility of defining the term at all, noting that: " While in a sense it is impossibly difficult to define, the impossibility has less to do with the adoption of a position or the assertion of a choice on deconstruction ’ s part than with the impossibility of every ‘ is ’ as such.

In the tradition of Holy Writ, the impossibility of coming face to face with God is a recurring motif, thus the commandment against graven images ( Exodus 20. 4-5 ).

In agreement with Amotz Zahavi, Knight argues that language — being a realm of patent fictions — is a theoretical impossibility in a Darwinian world, where signals must be intrinsically reliable.

The theory of field extensions ( including Galois theory ) involves the roots of polynomials with coefficients in a field ; among other results, this theory leads to impossibility proofs for the classical problems of angle trisection and squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge, as well as a proof of the Abel – Ruffini theorem on the algebraic insolubility of quintic equations.

Again, the historically consistent reference to the period of the temple construction in, may be contrasted with the impossibility of reconciling Luke's account of the census of with historic records of Quirinius's governorship of Syria.

Due to the impossibility of maintaining a real front in premodern warfare, the supplies had to be carried with the army and / or transported to it while under guard.

It has been insinuated both by contemporary and by later critics that being disappointed at his loss of popularity, and convinced of the impossibility of co-operating with his colleagues, he exaggerated his malady as a pretext for the inaction that was forced upon him by circumstances.

Although it dealt with the challenging theme of the impossibility of objective standards and the ever-doubtable truth of memory, it was a successful and popular hit with audiences, no doubt helped by its sex scenes, which were explicit for the time.

" He stood toward the history of the Church in an attitude of piety and reverence that made it much more difficult for him than for Luther to be content with the thought of the impossibility of a reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church.

Investigations concerning the running of Paris's city hall, the number of whose municipal employees jumped by 25 % from 1977 to 1995 ( with 2, 000 out of approximately 35, 000 coming from the Corrèze region where Chirac had held his seat as deputy ), as well as a lack of financial transparency ( marchés publics ) and the communal debt, were thwarted by the legal impossibility of questioning him as president.

Opponents of simplified spellings point to the impossibility of phonetic spelling for a language with many diverse accents and dialects.

In this view, speculative reason is considered fallible due to the inherent impossibility of objectivity in investigations with moral implications.

One proof of the impossibility of finding a planar embedding of K < sub > 3, 3 </ sub > uses a case analysis involving the Jordan curve theorem, in which one examines different possibilities for the locations of the vertices with respect to the 4-cycles of the graph and shows that they are all inconsistent with a planar embedding.

The impossibility of solving this problem of a gun-type bomb with plutonium was decided upon in a meeting in Los Alamos on June 17, 1944.

In 1678 he published The True Intellectual System of the Universe: the first part, wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted and its impossibility demonstrated ( imprimatur dated 1671 ).

Its basic subject matter and setting — love at the Heian court — are those of the romance, and its cultural assumptions are those of the mid-Heian period, but Murasaki Shikibu's unique genius has made the work for many a powerful statement of human relationships, the impossibility of permanent happiness in love ... and the vital importance, in a world of sorrows, of sensitivity to the feelings of others.

The mathematician Roger Penrose independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as " impossibility in its purest form ".

Scientists involved with the construction refute this claim, stating its impossibility because both sites sit well above the planned waterline.

There are no signs informing would-be visitors of its actual location ; therefore, it's almost an impossibility to find for any potential tourists who wish to visit the site.

The foundational philosophy of intuitionism or constructivism, as exemplified in the extreme by Brouwer and more coherently by Stephen Kleene, requires proofs to be " constructive " in nature – the existence of an object must be demonstrated rather than inferred from a demonstration of the impossibility of its non-existence.

Raynal now realized the impossibility of a peaceful revolution, and, in terror of the proceedings for which the writings of himself and his friends had prepared the way, he sent to the Constituent Assembly an address, which was read on May 31, 1791, deprecating the violence of its reforms.

People should note that, meantime, the team has recognized the physical impossibility to use on-board stored compressed air due to its poor energy capacity and the thermal losses resulting from the expansion of the gas.

In classical political theory, national sovereignty translates into a representative constitutional system, because a nation cannot be governed by direct democracy, given the impossibility of direct representation of its past and future citizens.

James Gregory attempted a proof of its impossibility in Vera Circuli et Hyperbolae Quadratura ( The True Squaring of the Circle and of the Hyperbola ) in 1667.

It was not until 1882 that Ferdinand von Lindemann rigorously proved its impossibility.

Before settling on the impossibility of true psychogeography, Debord made another film, On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time ( 1959 ), the title of which suggests its own subject matter.

... the necessity for capitalism on the one hand to reduce workers to simple executors of tasks, and on the other hand, in its impossibility to continue functioning if it succeeds in so doing.

" French professor John Phillips writes that shemale is " a linguistic oxymoron that simultaneously reflects but, by its very impossibility, challenges

Where an agent would traditionally be described as believing an impossibility until its impossibility was disclosed, Marcus proposes that under those circumstances the agent should say that she only claimed to believe an impossibility.

A system that undergoes an irreversible process may still be capable of returning to its initial state ; however, the impossibility occurs in restoring the environment to its own initial conditions.

In philosophy and AI ( especially, knowledge based systems ), the qualification problem is concerned with the impossibility of listing all the preconditions required for a real-world action to have its intended effect.

It is possible that Big Babylon was intended both to launch satellites and to serve as a weapon, but its ability to fire conventional projectiles in the latter role would have been very limited: in addition to the impossibility of aiming it, it would have had a slow rate of fire, and its firing would have produced a very pronounced ' signature ' which would have revealed its location.

German Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia demonstrated the impossibility of establishing a collective security system in Europe, a policy advocated by the Soviet ministry of foreign affairs Maxim Litvinov.

The very largest of all purchases of dollars in the history of 1976 was when the West German government achieved an almost 3 billion dollar acquisition ( a figure given as 2. 75 billion in total by The Statesman: Volume 18 1974 → ), this event indicated the impossibility of the balancing of exchange stabilities by the measures of control used at the time and the monetary system and the foreign exchange markets in " West " Germany and other countries within Europe closed for two weeks ( during February and, or, March of 1973.

Indeed, the old Armenian saying in the novel —“ To be an Armenian is an impossibility ”— resonated with Jews living in Europe and Palestine.

Here it need only be said that Hall himself soon became aware of the impossibility of the Helstat, and his whole policy aimed at making its absurdity patent to Europe, and substituting for it a constitutional Denmark to the Eider which would be in a position to come to terms with an independent Holstein.

When the Ruthenian Catholic Church in Europe was under atheistic Communist rule, and because of persecution, unable to organize publicly, the impossibility of regular communication with it meant that the distant American Metropolia, unable to be treated as a normal metropolia of an Eastern Rite Catholic Church ( canons 133 – 139 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches ), has been treated as a sui iuris ( autonomous ) Metropolitan Church ( canons 155 – 173 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches ).

Behe has been accused of using an " argument by lack of imagination ", and Behe himself acknowledges that a failure of current science to explain how an " irreducibly complex " organism did or could evolve does not automatically prove the impossibility of such an evolution.

Various solutions and impossibility theorems have been offered for the transformation, but the debate has not reached any clear resolution.

In fact common criteria ( CC ) at the highest assurance level ( Evaluation Assurance Level ( EAL ) 7 ) has an explicit requirement that the target of evaluation be “ simple ”, an acknowledgment of the practical impossibility of establishing true trustworthiness for a complex system.

Vivian Mercier described Waiting for Godot as a play which " has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats.

The difficulty of this argument for some compatibilists lies in the fact that it entails the impossibility that one could have chosen other than one has.

It may be argued that the historical tendency of power holders in all times and places to limit the activities of market actors combined with the natural impossibility of monitoring and constraining all market actors has resulted in the fact that, as we understand a " mixed economy " being a combination of governmental enterprise and free-enterprise, nearly every economy to develop in human history meets this definition ; though some systems may be so close to being completely one way or the other that to call them mixed is redundant and it is more meaningful just to call them a free market economy or a command economy.

Victor Mair analyzed the linguistic impossibility of rendering Taotie ( Wikt: 饕餮 ) " a mythical beast ; glutton ; greedy person " as " exterminate capitalism " and concluded somebody " mischievously provided an absurd translation, perhaps with the intention of poking fun at the Chinese Communist system which has given rise to such luxurious and fancy dining practices as reflected in pretentious menus of this sort.

When the impossibility of this union became evident, he formed a separate group, with thirty-five followers, which has been described as " Cultured Orthodox ".

It has been seen as demonstrating the impossibility for an artist to shape his work in such a way that it reveals what he intends it to reveal ; art in the end escapes him .”

A total impossibility to adopt derogating laws could be considered incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty, a fundamental principle in political systems following the British tradition ; however, Canada, of which Quebec is a province, has a tradition of constitutional supremacy.

Horace, in Ars Poetica ( l. 340 ) imagines the impossibility of retrieving the living children she has eaten:

Failure to perceive this obvious truth has been responsible for much empty dogmatism on the impossibility of forming any concept of the Infinite.

This ordering is not only a well ordering, it also has the property that any monomial is preceded only by a finite number of other monomials ; this is not the case for lexicographic order, where all ( infinitely many ) powers of y are less than x ( that lexicographic order is nevertheless a well ordering is related to the impossibility to construct an infinite decreasing chain of monomials ).

The impossibility of getting vehicular access to the main street has led to deliveries being made by sledge.

Given the impossibility for the player to recover to play professionally, the company has proceeded to fully write down the residual book value of the player's registration rights with a negative effect on the 2007 – 08 financial year for € 6. 8 million.

In theory, he knows the ultimate consequences of whatever action he sends his operatives to perform ; however, the impossibility of considering every factor has led to his fear that he may be causing the very disasters he is trying to prevent-in the words of one agent, " What about the man who died?

Due to his elusive behaviour and the impossibility to check his life facts, it has been suggested many times that Julien Torma's existence may be entirely fictional.

He is perhaps best known for his famous summation of the plot of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "... has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats.