logically possible
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
For it is logically possible that even though all known minds be the results of matter in motion, matter in motion may nevertheless itself be the result of an unknown mind.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
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