conceivability

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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

The evidence of existence, he declares, is clear and distinct conceivability.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

"May exist," since for the critical philosopher, who has learned that every extension of knowledge beyond the limits of experience is impossible, the question can concern only the conceivability of the world-ground and of freedom.

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

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

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance

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)