conceivability

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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)

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)

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 Falckenberg, Richard

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)

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 Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)