Not lost as in came second, but lost from a position from which it was logically impossible to do anything other than win.

So too with our behaviour: the salmon he caught was not acting in a way that was 'the very opposite of rewarding for herself' - a logically impossible concept.

Once we admit that non-human ancestors are morally equivalent to ourselves, it becomes logically impossible to hold the line against other kindred species.

Popper heeded the problem of induction as rendering empirical verification logically impossible.

Being a fictitious character he could perform tasks that were logically impossible; for example, he could clap one hand in the air when summoning a waiter or a minion.