However, we do not deliberate about necessary or impossible matters.

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However, we do not deliberate about necessary or impossible matters. / However, we do not deliberate about necessary nor impossible matters.
Is 'nor' correct here? I remember having seen such instructions in nineteenth-century literature.
 
However, we do not deliberate about necessary or impossible matters. / However, we do not deliberate about necessary nor impossible matters.
Is 'nor' correct here? I remember having seen such instructions in nineteenth-century literature.
If you use "nor", you have to precede it with "neither" and change the negative voice to positive.

We do not deliberate about necessary or impossible matters.
We deliberate about neither necessary nor impossible matters.

Here's a much simpler example:
I do not have a cat or a dog.
I have neither a cat nor a dog.
 
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