conceivability
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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
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
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 George John Romanes
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 Richard Falckenberg
Yet only—equally of course," I returned after a brief brooding, "if I come within a conceivability of accepting it.
From The Sacred Fount by Henry James
