cogitable

American  

[koj-i-tuh-buhl] / ˈkɒdʒ ɪ tə bəl /

adjective

1. able to be considered; conceivable; thinkable.

   The thought of space flights to other galaxies has become more cogitable.

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cogitable British  

/ ˈkɒdʒɪtəbəl /

adjective

1. rare conceivable

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Other Word Forms

• cogitability
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of cogitable

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin cōgitābilis, equivalent to cōgitā ( re ) ( see cogitate) + -bilis -ble

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Example Sentences

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cogitable

Objects, therefore, are of two kinds, sensible and cogitable.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya

If the two contradictory extremes are equally incogitable, yet include a cogitable mean, why insist upon the 252 necessity of accepting either extreme?

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

A body impelled in one direction by a given force, and in another by its opposite, is easily cogitable.

From Modern Society by Julia Ward Howe

If the two contradictory extremes are themselves incogitable, yet include a cogitable mean, why insist upon the necessity of accepting either extreme?

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

For the world is a sum of phenomena; there must, therefore, be some transcendental basis of these phenomena, that is, a basis cogitable by the pure understanding alone.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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