conceivability
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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
"You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.
From Anna Karenina by Constance Garnett
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
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
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
