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What does it mean?
Suggests that if an event occurred, it must be possible, challenging initial perceptions of impossibility.
In plain terms
If something happened, it is possible.
What can you take from it?
Reality overrides initial assumptions.

Where it applies

  • investigation
  • problem solving
  • scientific inquiry

Putting it to work

  • detective work
  • logic puzzles
  • innovation

Questions to consider

  • What seems impossible but happened?
  • How do you judge possibility?

Another view

Sometimes improbable events are coincidences, not new possibilities.

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