conceivability
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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
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 Charles Jerome Callan
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
Perceptibility or conceivability are, then, the two forms which reality may assume.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
