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incompossibility Now rare.|ɪnkəmpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -ity.]
The quality or condition of being incompossible; total incompatibility. Also, with pl., an instance of this.
1629Jackson Creed vi. ii. xxix. §2 Whether we respect the contrariety of their natural dispositions or the incompossibility of their projects and engagements. 1630Randolph Aristippus (1652) 3 What should this Scotus meane by his possibilities and incompossibilities? My Cooper, Rider, Thomas and Minsheu are as farre to seek as myself. 1742C. Owen Nat. Hist. Serpents 66 By reason of some great Disproportion or Incompossibility. 1864Bowen Logic vi. 170 The Incompossibility, or the fact that the two Judgments cannot both be true. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant v. 83 The incompossibility of different things (i.e. the impossibility of different things existing together). |