0 (especially of a problem or a difficulty) so great that it cannot be dealt with successfully: --
insurmountable difficulties
1 (esp. of a problem or a difficulty) so great that it cannot be dealt with successfully: --
Normativists assume that there is an insurmountable gap between these two worlds.
On the basis of a natural and almost insurmountable tendency, we assume this machine to have will, intelligence, purpose, freedom.
Such a move has its own, in my view insurmountable, problems, but that is a topic for another paper.
Preliminary investigations indicate that this is the case and, indeed, the analysis does not appear to offer any insurmountable difficulties.
Studying metacognition in animals might be considered as an insurmountable challenge by many researchers.
There are two insurmountable problems with this scenario.
In the abstract, these are not insurmountable problems.
It remains to be seen whether the differences are insurmountable or whether this will become a major approach to research in language learning.
