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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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
The love of life was too strong to permit the conceivability of such a choice.
From The Wilderness Trail by Frank Williams
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