conceivability

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"You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance

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 Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Metaphysics is, in general, unable to show how reality is made, but only to remove certain contradictions which stand in the way of the conceivability of these notions.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

The love of life was too strong to permit the conceivability of such a choice.

From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank

And in the vast majority of cases this test of relative inconceivability is, for all practical purposes, as valid a test of truth as is the test of absolute conceivability.

From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John