conceivable
adjective
capable of being conceived; imaginable.
conceivability
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a word derived from
conceivable.
Example Sentences
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"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
The love of life was too strong to permit the conceivability of such a choice.
From The Wilderness Trail by Frank Williams
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
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
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
