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Subjective Impossibility

Subjective Impossibility is a legal doctrine within the excuse of performance framework that belongs to the class of defenses relieving a party from contractual obligations, distinguished by its reliance on personal, individual incapacity or circumstances unique to the promisor that prevent performance, despite the act being objectively possible for others.

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Powerlessness and Impossibility in Special Education: a Qualitative Study on Professional Burnout from a Lacanian Perspective

Stijn Vanheule, Paul Verhaeghe · Human Relations · 2004 · 56 citations

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PARADOXES OF SUBJECTIVE OBLIGATION

Harry J. Gensler · Metaphilosophy · 1987 · 34 citations

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The Extraordinary Impossibility of Sherlock Holmes

Ben Caplan · Res Philosophica · 2015 · 26 citations

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Impossibility, Subjective Probability, and Punishment for Attempts

David D. Friedman · The Journal of Legal Studies · 1991 · 15 citations

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Mangrove conservation in Singapore: A physical or a psychological impossibility?

Liow Lee Hsiang · Biodiversity and Conservation · 2000 · 15 citations

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Authors

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  1. RP
    Richard Pringle

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  2. TM
    Thaddeus M. Cowan

    Kansas State University, United States

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  3. JW
    James Ward Smith

    Princeton University, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  4. HJ
    Harry J. Gensler

    Loyola University Chicago, United States

    1 publications · 34 citations

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  5. SV
    Stijn Vanheule

    Ghent University, Belgium

    1 publications · 56 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Loyola University Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  2. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  3. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    112 citations

  4. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    1 publications

    15 citations

  5. Swedish Species Information Centre

    Uppsala, Sweden

    1 publications

    15 citations

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  2. Metaphilosophy

    1 publications · 34 citations

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  3. Human Relations

    1 publications · 56 citations

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  4. The Journal of Legal Studies

    JLS · 1 publications · 15 citations

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  5. Mind

    1 publications · 11 citations

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