Thanks for the correction. Rereading it I can kind of see if they mean possibility as an abstract concept, so I’ll take the L on it.

But I still maintain it’s a pretty fucked way of phrasing it.

And worse mistakes:

where there must be at least possibility that

I have complete sympathy for non-native speakers writing papers, but it also raises the question of whether they properly understand the source material they’re referencing.

Was this written by a native English speaker?

It’s hard to take seriously with so many grammatical errors