conceivability
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In making conceivability the supreme test as to what is knowable, Mr. Spencer sets up a criterion which he himself violates.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Logical deduction from the predicates attached to the term "Nirvana" strips it of all reality, conceivability, or perceivability, whether by Gods or men.
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
Perceptibility or conceivability are, then, the two forms which reality may assume.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
The distance becomes less and less, but theoretically, or in conceivability, the one can never overtake the other.
From To Infidelity and Back by Henry F. (Henry Frey) Lutz
God is made a first and consequently a comparative intensity, and matter the last; the whole thence finite; and thence its conceivability.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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