Impossibility should never be confused with improbability. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The improbability of such rare coincidences. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability, or impossibility. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
The improbability will be the greater, the more complicated the routes; and it will become impossibility, if the zigzags are infinitely complicated. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
(Compare a creationist's anti-evolution argument based on the "improbability" of human existence.). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
It was the wildest kind of improbability that he had a double anywhere who could reproduce him so perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
She must have got hold of some kind of improbability generator as, suddenly, the unexpected became a daily event. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Where Ideas Come From: Life] Reference
Yeah but I'm drawing parallels to other arguments that derive from improbability which is why people like Behe say that kind of stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference
He reflects on 'improbability' of victory, sacrifices made by ordinary men. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Both girls giggled softly at such an improbability. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
They have also internal evidences of their improbability. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Ans. 1 chance in 60, which means an extreme improbability. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
The reason may lie in the very improbability of the cause. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: One More War, Please] Reference
Longtree repeated incredulously, trying to picture the improbability. From Wordnik.com. [I Like Martian Music] Reference
Geometric period, are adduced as evidence of the improbability of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
Despite its rank improbability and sentimental character this tale has. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
To intertwine so easily in a state of coincidence is an improbability. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.19: Opportunity Arising] Reference
But I will not rest either on improbability, or argument, or even denial. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
"The question is rather what is an improbability?" answered her companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
< 42 > We know of no inherent improbability of his existence at that time. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Notwithstanding the improbability of the explanation, he did not hesitate. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Few tales of horror in Panama could be questioned on the ground of improbability. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
The mode of progression is wobbling and risky, but the improbability of revisiting. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
A childish error, highly improbable; twice repeated, thus squaring the improbability. From Wordnik.com. [Accidental Death] Reference
Such comparisons indicate the improbability of acquired modifications being transmitted to offspring. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
The improbability is certainly taken away by the knowledge that one such body, the earth, is inhabited. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
I thought about her life, and my life, and our lives, and the improbability that I would ever be enough. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Married Women] Reference
He vainly endeavored to draw her mind from Lewis, and convince her of the improbability of his returning. From Wordnik.com. [Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer] Reference
You will kindly note that, despite the improbability of his situation, he did not think he was a caveman. From Wordnik.com. [Prehistoric History] Reference
There is some improbability in this part of the story; but gunpowder plots have special privilege of absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Ralph Maxwell Mainwaring against his elder son and the extreme improbability of his ever relenting in his favor. From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
He rested his main defence upon the improbability of his having acted as the prosecution endeavoured to make out. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
"The Great Lover" is conscientious and good-hearted, but for all its class-crossing improbability, still rather timid. From Wordnik.com. [Jill Dawson's novel about Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover"] Reference
He could not fail to perceive its improbability, drunk as he was, but still he could not, for the life of him, discredit it. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Such confidence had she in Windham's love that the thought of his losing it, or changing, appeared the wildest improbability. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The mere improbability of events contrary to natural laws does not destroy the ethical value of the teachings of the Nazarene. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistakes of Jesus] Reference
The preceding narrative is given to the reader without any further comment, except upon the general improbability of the story. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
There is thus no intrinsic improbability in the hypothesis that Pindar's haughty spirit had suffered, or imagined, some mortification. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
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