conceivability
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"You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.
From Anna Karenina by Constance Garnett
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
"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
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 Charles Jerome Callan
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 George John Romanes
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