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conceivability

NOUN
  1. the state of being conceivable

How To Use conceivability In A Sentence

  • So the kind of conceivability invoked in premisses (1) and (2) needs to be strongly constrained. Zombies
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Orr's criterion for possibility is conceivability.
  • An interior volatile chemical factory isn't beyond conceivability. Behe's Test
  • Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe. Across the Universe
  • Distinction between "inconceivability" in a formal or symbolical, and in a material or realisable sense. A Candid Examination of Theism
  • Many evolutionary biologists are satisfied with a very undemanding form of ability or capacity-namely conceivability.
  • 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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