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Even if such control should eventually grow clearly picturable, the question how far it is successfully exerted in this actual world can be answered only by investigating the details of fact.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

For a metaphor, by supplying us with a picturable representation, often enables us really to get at the hang of the thing a vast deal better than the most solemn argument.

From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant

Thus the conceivable is reduced within the bounds of the picturable.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor