conceivability

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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

Possibility of sin is the conceivability but unlikelihood that it will result from a certain set of circumstances.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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)

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