conceivability
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God is made a first and consequently a comparative intensity, and matter the last; the whole thence finite; and thence its conceivability.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The evidence of existence, he declares, is clear and distinct conceivability.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
"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 Richard Falckenberg
Logical deduction from the predicates attached to the term "Nirvana" strips it of all reality, conceivability, or perceivability, whether by Gods or men.
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
"You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.
From Anna Karenina by Constance Garnett