conceivability

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Since then he had watched eagerly for evidences of another life: and the sense of its conceivability grew upon him, in spite of the doubts which he had entertained of the immortality of the soul.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

Now it is this test of relative conceivability which all men apply in varying degrees to the question of Theism.

From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John

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 Huxley, Thomas Henry

To answer this, we must consider the argument for conceivability as the touchstone which is to separate the “Knowable” from the “Unknowable.”

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Not as hard, unimpressionable, dull, and inert, but as live, supple, sensitive, and active�active with an intensity of activity past all conceivability.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir