conceivability

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We therefore see that we are justified in saying that conceivability is worthless as a test as to whether an object of thought lies within the domain of the Knowable or Unknowable.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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

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)

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)