conceivability

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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

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)

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

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

Not as hard, unimpressionable, dull, and inert, but as live, supple, sensitive, and active�active with an intensity of activity past all conceivability.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir