conceivability
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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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Now it is this test of relative conceivability which all men apply in varying degrees to the question of Theism.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 Henry James
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
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