conceivability

Example Sentences

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

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

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)

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

The distance becomes less and less, but theoretically, or in conceivability, the one can never overtake the other.

From To Infidelity and Back by Lutz, Henry F. (Henry Frey)

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 James, Henry