conceivability
Example Sentences
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The love of life was too strong to permit the conceivability of such a choice.
From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank
"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 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)
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 Romanes, George John
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
