conceivability
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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
The evidence of existence, he declares, is clear and distinct conceivability.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
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
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
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
