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logically possible

British  

adjective

  1. capable of being described without self-contradiction

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While Endres acknowledges the idea as logically possible, he notes that it runs counter to Occam's razor, the principle that favors simpler explanations.

From Science Daily

“It is logically possible that he could treat it as a distribution of property, but he doesn’t have to go into the slave law. So that was a jump,” Ms. Ikemoto said.

From New York Times

There was a moment, just before the quarter-finals, when it was logically possible that England might confront Russia in the semis.

From The New Yorker

But Messrs Mankiw and Mulligan showed that the CEA’s prediction is at least logically possible.

From Economist

But if you’re writing an essay on mammals, it’s up to you whether to write first about the rodents, then the primates, then the bats, and so on, or first the primates, then the felines, then the whales and dolphins, or any of the other 403,291,461,126,605,635,584, 000,000 logically possible orderings of the twenty-six subgroups.

From Literature