A phrase may be linguistically intelligible while combining requirements that cannot be jointly realized, such as “a figure that is a perfect square and a perfect circle in precisely the same respect.”
Understanding the words, forming a coherent concept, and establishing external possibility are different matters.
A verbally formulated impossibility is not evidence for an externally existing object. Claims about reality require attention to what can coherently obtain.
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Realities Are Established: Truth, Correspondence and Essence
A phrase may be linguistically intelligible while combining requirements that cannot be jointly realized, such as “a figure that is a perfect square and a perfect circle in precisely the same respect.”
Understanding the words, forming a coherent concept, and establishing external possibility are different matters.
A verbally formulated impossibility is not evidence for an externally existing object. Claims about reality require attention to what can coherently obtain.