conceivability

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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)

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 Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

"May exist," since for the critical philosopher, who has learned that every extension of knowledge beyond the limits of experience is impossible, the question can concern only the conceivability of the world-ground and of freedom.

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

The evidence of existence, he declares, is clear and distinct conceivability.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton