conceivability

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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 James, Henry

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)

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 Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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 Binet, Alfred

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 Romanes, George John