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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 • Oct. 26, 2025

“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 • Mar. 16, 2023

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 • Jul. 14, 2018

As an example, psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker explains in his book The Language Instinct that the auxiliary verbs—which include words like can, should, must, be, have, and do—have about 24 quintillion logically possible combinations.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2016

But by definitions as "logically possible" I mean the number of separate definitions which admit of being correctly given of the same thing from different points of view.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John