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    Therefore, the imaginability that generates apparent counterexamples to impossibility claims is systematically weaker than the idealized standard required to license possibility inferences.

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    Key Terms

    Idealized standard(in epistemology)
    A perfect or theoretical benchmark used to measure or evaluate something, rather than what actually occurs in practice.
    Imaginability(what Newman says should NOT determine our convictions)
    The ability to picture something in your mind or imagine it happening; Newman argues this shouldn't be the basis for what we believe.
    Impossibility claims(in metaphysics and logic)
    Statements asserting that something cannot exist or cannot happen under any circumstances.
    Modal logic(logic)
    A system of logic that deals with concepts like possibility, necessity, and what could or must be true.
    Possibility inferences(in epistemology and metaphysics)

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