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Will it really be contended that the inconceivableness of the thing, in such circumstances, proves any thing against the experimental origin of the conviction?

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

The utter unexpectedness, improbability, and inconceivableness of such an event robbed this vague declaration of all its effect. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

As to Captain Mitchell, the suddenness, unexpectedness, and general inconceivableness of this experience had confused his thoughts.

From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph

But he differs from me "widely as to the worth of the test of inconceivableness."

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart

Or, if there be any, they are beyond our reach - we cannot fathom them; therefore, qua us, they have no existence, for there is no other “is not” than inconceivableness by ourselves. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel