Ability - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy https://www.argumenta.org Journal of Analytic Philosophy Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:19:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 It Is Impossible to Be Able to Do the Impossible https://www.argumenta.org/article/it-is-impossible-to-be-able-to-do-the-impossible-2/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:19:21 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2713 Jack Spencer (2017) has recently argued that somebody might be able to do the impossible. His arguments consist, to a large extent, in describing a class of cases —G-cases, as he calls them—in which it is intuitively plausible to hold that somebody is able to do something impossible. Here is one of Spencer’s G-cases: Simple […]

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]]> It Is Impossible to Be Able to Do the Impossible https://www.argumenta.org/article/it-is-impossible-to-be-able-to-do-the-impossible/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:06:21 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2004 Jack Spencer (2017) has recently argued that somebody might be able to do the impossible. His arguments consist, to a large extent, in describing a class of cases—G-cases, as he calls them—in which it is intuitively plausible to hold that somebody is able to do something impossible. Here is one of Spencer’s G-cases: …

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