POSSIBLE  可能

ABLE TO BE DONE OR ABLE TO HAPPEN, OR ABLE TO BE THE CASE. 
MAYCOULDFEASIBLEPRACTICABLEPRACTICALVIABLEWITHIN THE BOUNDS/REALMS OF POSSIBILITYATTAINABLEACHIEVABLEWORKABLEINFORMAL DOABLE.POSSIBILITY
Antonym
Hypernym
  • ABLEHAVE FEATURES one NEEDS in SELF:oneself FOR ACHIEVING something.
    • HAVERELATION to something such that it BE-IN:is in one OR is CONTROLLED by one.
      • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
Hyponym
  • DIFFICULT POSSIBLE BUT EVEN-IF TRIED ONLY ACHIEVED RARELY OR ONLY by USING BIG EFFORT.
  • EASY POSSIBLE AND IF TRIED OFTEN ACHIEVED LACKING:without EFFORT.
    • CLEAR EASY to PERCEIVE OR UNDERSTAND.
    • NATURALLY EASILY AND NOT:without BECAUSE of being COMPELLED OR BECAUSE of PLANNING, OR USING A METHOD.
    • TRANSPARENT EASY TO SEE THROUGH.
  • PROBABLE INTENSELY POSSIBLE AND EXPECTED to be TRUE.
Modern Chinese Criteria
可能

也許

或許

容許

容或

或者

或則



許是

恐怕



想必

興許

也興

作興

說不定

講不定

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /

  • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 127

  • Woerterbuch der Philosophie. Neue Beitraege zu einer Kritik der Sprache ( MAUTHNER WP 1924) p. I.2

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 3.1946

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 6.72

    MOEGLICHKEIT

  • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p. 10.20

    POSSIBILITY

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 59B

Words

  kě OC: khlaalʔ MC: khɑ 47 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nabpossibilities, the possible; objective possibility, viability, feasibility
  • vadVquestionpossibly
  • vibe practically possible, be feasible
  • vt+V[0]may possibly V, may conceivably V, may come to V; it is possible for one to V
  • vt+V[0]V=passivecan be V-edCH
  néng OC: nɯɯŋ MC: nəŋ 5 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt+V[0]be posssible to VLZ
  • vt+V[0]{PASS}can possibly come to be V-ed
或者  huò zhě OC: ɡʷɯɯɡ kljaʔ MC: ɦək tɕɣɛ 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • PPadSperhaps; possibly; perhaps? 
  xíng OC: ɢraaŋ MC: ɦɣaŋ 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vibe feasible
  dé OC: tɯɯɡ MC: tək 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vibe realisticCH
  • vt+Sin rhetorical questions: is possible that S? 得無 "is it possible that not> is it not plausible that S?"
  chù OC: qhljas MC: tɕhi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • nabBUDDH: place where something may happen > possibility in this world
  huò MC: hwok OC: ɡʷɯɯɡCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • padSit is possible that SCH
可能  kě néng OC: khlaalʔ nɯɯŋ MC: khɑ nəŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPt+V[0]{PASS}may possibly get V-ed

Existing SW for

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