How To Use Conceivability In A Sentence
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Distinction between "inconceivability" in an absolute and in a relative sense.
A Candid Examination of Theism
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Use of the zombie idea against physicalism also raises more general questions about relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility.
Zombies
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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
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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
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There was no universe, no sheer conceivability, merely absence of cognitive ability.
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So the kind of conceivability invoked in premisses (1) and (2) needs to be strongly constrained.
Zombies
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Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe.
Across the Universe
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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
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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
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Hence the conceivability of an autonomously operating rational soul.
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Even if the particular mechanism turns out to not be the historical avenue, it shows the conceivability of such a process.
Bits and Pieces of an RNA World
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I include (2) because the notion of conceivability has one foot in the psychological camp, like imaginability, and one in the camp of pure logical possibility and therefore helps in the transition from one to the other.
Dualism
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The possibility that there is no life after death, no paranormal events, no God and no greater meaning to their existence ponies up an unimaginably vast array of negative emotions as to the "inconceivability" of the above.
An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris
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Their conceivability does not zero out the evidential value of all putative IC.
Assessing Causality
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Notice that Nagel speaks of the apparent conceivability of a zombie.
Blurring the Line
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They took shelter in the utter inconceivability of what was being documented.
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This scandalous inconceivability - dead men talking?
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inconceivability" is used in the sense of relative inconceivability, it is incorrectly used, unless it is qualified in some way; because, if used without qualification, there is danger of its being confused with inconceivability in its absolute sense.
A Candid Examination of Theism
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I include (2) because the notion of conceivability has one foot in the psychological camp, like imaginability, and one in the camp of pure logical possibility and therefore helps in the transition from one to the other.
Dualism
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Understanding the inconceivability of the Absolute is the only solution to the question of duality.
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It is a mixture of both indecision and the truly solid faith in the inconceivability of a heavenly body.
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˜conceivability™ argument, often known as the ˜zombie hypothesis™, which claims the imaginability and possibility of my body (or, in some forms, a body physically just like it) existing without there being any conscious states associated with it.
Dualism
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His inconceivability is the foundation of His immeasurableness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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Paradox lends itself to the expression of religious ideas, especially Christian notions concerned with the doctrine of the incarnation, with its mix of divine inconceivability and worldly embodiment.
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Descartes is indeed considering the view of possibility as conceivability, but in doing so he is merely acknowledging what ‘everyone commonly means’ by ‘possible’.
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Among the metaphysical arguments that have been given in support of such claims are those that appeal to intuitions about the conceivability and logical possibility of zombies.
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Many evolutionary biologists are satisfied with a very undemanding form of ability or capacity-namely conceivability.
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Distinction between "inconceivability" in a formal or symbolical, and in a material or realisable sense.
A Candid Examination of Theism
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Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe.
Across the Universe
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An interior volatile chemical factory isn't beyond conceivability.
Behe's Test
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Orr's criterion for possibility is conceivability.
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I have long claimed that this conceivability is only apparent; some misguided philosophers think they can conceive of a zombie, but they are badly mistaken. nullasalus:
Blurring the Line
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Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility.
Zombies