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conceivability

NOUN
  1. the state of being conceivable

How To Use conceivability In A Sentence

  • Distinction between "inconceivability" in an absolute and in a relative sense. A Candid Examination of Theism
  • Use of the zombie idea against physicalism also raises more general questions about relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
  • In this case, a plausible reply is simply that fiction delivers no guidance to conceptual investigations: conceivability may well be a guide to possibility, but literary fantasy is by itself no evidence of conceivability (van Inwagen 1993: 229). Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3
  • Regardless of your decision, book Keith Hackett and Paul Trevillion for pushing the boundaries of conceivability just a little bit too far. You are the Ref: Tim Howard, Everton
  • There was no universe, no sheer conceivability, merely absence of cognitive ability.
  • So the kind of conceivability invoked in premisses (1) and (2) needs to be strongly constrained. Zombies
  • Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe. Across the Universe
  • One conference panelist, Sylvia Math é of the Universit é de Provence, pondered the inconceivability of Updike "being born in the West. Keystone to Updike's Imagination
  • Heredity and the origin of life must be taken into account; the "inconceivability" of the process has some weight; and the apparent infringement of the law of Conservation of Energy is a serious objection. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
  • Hence the conceivability of an autonomously operating rational soul.
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