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“Conceivability or inconceivability is a life’s work—it’s not something where you just screw up your head for a second!”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017

Travis is trying to keep his family, and probably himself, from losing it, and the show needs a true believer to embody the inconceivability of a total collapse of order.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2015

Lulu and Courtney cry at once, but this inconceivability is eclipsed by Clementine, who says, “Can I try on your hat?”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

It may or may not be the case that they do; but there is no scientific ground for dogmatism on the subject, nor any reason for asserting the inconceivability of such a thing.

From Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

The inconceivability of the opposite; the capacity to be verified by sense; the possession of complete organic unity or self-relation, realized when a thing is its own other,—are standards which, in turn, have been used.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William