conceivability
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And in the vast majority of cases this test of relative inconceivability is, for all practical purposes, as valid a test of truth as is the test of absolute conceivability.
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
God is made a first and consequently a comparative intensity, and matter the last; the whole thence finite; and thence its conceivability.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The evidence of existence, he declares, is clear and distinct conceivability.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
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